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Re: Typing help brings up a screen that says type help()

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Date 2014-08-29 17:10 -0400
Subject Re: Typing help brings up a screen that says type help()
From Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.13619.1409346640.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Seymore4Head
<Seymore4Head@hotmail.invalid> wrote:
> What is the logic behind that?

It would seem that help() is a function.  You are in the python shell
when you type it, and it runs the function that displays help.

> Couldn't help do the same thing as help()?
> But the reason I ask is that I see (from a video of Getting Started
> with Python) that older versions of python would allow ? as help.  I
> get syntax error when I try ?
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Typing help brings up a screen that says type help() Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2014-08-29 16:40 -0400
  Re: Typing help brings up a screen that says type help() Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2014-08-29 17:10 -0400
  Re: Typing help brings up a screen that says type help() Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2014-08-29 17:15 -0400
    Re: Typing help brings up a screen that says type help() Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2014-08-29 18:14 -0400
  Re: Typing help brings up a screen that says type help() Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-08-30 08:22 +1000
  Re: Typing help brings up a screen that says type help() Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2014-08-29 18:40 -0400
    Re: Typing help brings up a screen that says type help() Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-09-02 16:36 +0000
  Re: Typing help brings up a screen that says type help() Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-08-30 08:54 +1000
  Re: Typing help brings up a screen that says type help() Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2014-08-29 19:02 -0400
  Re: Typing help brings up a screen that says type help() Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-08-30 09:10 +1000
  Re: Typing help brings up a screen that says type help() Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-08-29 21:41 -0400
    Re: Typing help brings up a screen that says type help() Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2014-08-29 22:55 -0400
  Re: Typing help brings up a screen that says type help() Zachary Ware <zachary.ware+pylist@gmail.com> - 2014-08-29 21:13 -0500
  Re: Typing help brings up a screen that says type help() Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-08-30 14:46 +1000

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