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| From | Zachary Ware <zachary.ware+pylist@gmail.com> |
| Date | 2014-08-29 21:13 -0500 |
| Subject | Re: Typing help brings up a screen that says type help() |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Message-ID | <mailman.13636.1409364834.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote: > On 8/29/2014 4:40 PM, Seymore4Head wrote: >> older versions of python would allow ? as help. > > If I ever knew that, I have forgotten. The interpreter must have treated > '?' as a special case for interactive input. I suspect help was changed when > quit and exit were added. I don't believe '?' has ever been a feature of Python itself. However, IPython does use '?' as a syntax for help; you can try it with the in-browser interpreter at python.org. -- Zach
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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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