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  Python interactive help() Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-10-19 09:34 +0100
    Re: Python interactive help() Duncan Booth <duncan.booth@invalid.invalid> - 2012-10-19 08:56 +0000
      Re: Python interactive help() Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-10-19 10:09 +0100
        Re: Python interactive help() Duncan Booth <duncan.booth@invalid.invalid> - 2012-10-19 10:19 +0000

#31714 — Python interactive help()

Good morning/afternoon/evening all,

Where is this specific usage documented as my search engine skills have 
let me down?  By this I mean entering help() without parameters to get 
the following output and then the help> prompt.

C:\Users\Mark\workspace\CrossCode>py -3
Python 3.3.0 (v3.3.0:bd8afb90ebf2, Sep 29 2012, 10:55:48) [MSC v.1600 32 
bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> help()

Welcome to Python 3.3!  This is the interactive help utility.

If this is your first time using Python, you should definitely check out
the tutorial on the Internet at http://docs.python.org/3.3/tutorial/.

Enter the name of any module, keyword, or topic to get help on writing
Python programs and using Python modules.  To quit this help utility and
return to the interpreter, just type "quit".

To get a list of available modules, keywords, or topics, type "modules",
"keywords", or "topics".  Each module also comes with a one-line summary
of what it does; to list the modules whose summaries contain a given 
word such as "spam", type "modules spam".

help>

Cheers.

Mark Lawrence.
-- 
Cheers.

Mark Lawrence.

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#31719

Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Good morning/afternoon/evening all,
> 
> Where is this specific usage documented as my search engine skills have 
> let me down?  By this I mean entering help() without parameters to get 
> the following output and then the help> prompt.
> 
It is documented under 'built-in functions'.

http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#help


-- 
Duncan Booth http://kupuguy.blogspot.com

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#31721

On 19/10/2012 09:56, Duncan Booth wrote:
> Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Good morning/afternoon/evening all,
>>
>> Where is this specific usage documented as my search engine skills have
>> let me down?  By this I mean entering help() without parameters to get
>> the following output and then the help> prompt.
>>
> It is documented under 'built-in functions'.
>
> http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#help
>
>

Well Foxtrot Mike :-)  Thanks for the fast response.

-- 
Cheers.

Mark Lawrence.

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#31731

Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> On 19/10/2012 09:56, Duncan Booth wrote:
>> Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Good morning/afternoon/evening all,
>>>
>>> Where is this specific usage documented as my search engine skills have
>>> let me down?  By this I mean entering help() without parameters to get
>>> the following output and then the help> prompt.
>>>
>> It is documented under 'built-in functions'.
>>
>> http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#help
>>
>>
> 
> Well Foxtrot Mike :-)  Thanks for the fast response.
> 

A harder question would have been if you asked where 'exit()', 'quit()' are 
documented. For some reason they are hidden under "Built-in constants" 
(even though the documentation includes the function call syntax) alongside 
'license' and 'credits' which are documented without the parentheses but 
are also callable.

All but 'credits' behave similarly having a repr that gives you 
instructions to call them and doing something different when you do call 
them. 'credits' just gives you the same text whether or not you call it.

-- 
Duncan Booth http://kupuguy.blogspot.com

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