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  Re: Interactive keyword help Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2012-02-15 11:23 -0600
    Re: Interactive keyword help Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-02-15 23:57 +0000

#20451 — Re: Interactive keyword help

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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On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:23:20 -0600, Andrew Berg wrote:

> 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

Technically, it's not actually built-in, it is added to the built-ins by 
site.py.


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