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On 2/15/2012 10:04 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> I didn't realise that this was available until today.  It doesn't appear 
> to be prominent in the official docs or have I missed something? 
> Certainly I'd have thought a couple of sentences here 
> http://www.python.org/about/help/ would be justified, what do y'all think?
> 
help() is a built-in function, not a keyword.
http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#help
http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/functions.html#help

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