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On 15/02/2012 17:27, Arnaud Delobelle wrote:
> On 15 February 2012 17:23, Andrew Berg<bahamutzero8825@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I think he's referring to help *on* keywords, e.g.
>
>>>> help('yield')
>

Correct.

-- 
Cheers.

Mark Lawrence.