Bob> This sounds like a bug in pydoc. If __all__ is defined, help Bob> should probably only be given for items in it (public API). Funny you should mention that: revision 1.92 date: 2004/06/11 04:46:12; author: montanaro; state: Exp; lines: +22 -9 Respect a module's __all__ attribute. Closes #969938. and the corresponding output since then for the keyword module looks like: NAME keyword - Keywords (from "graminit.c") FILE /Users/skip/local/lib/python2.4/keyword.py MODULE DOCS http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-keyword.html DESCRIPTION This file is automatically generated; please don't muck it up! To update the symbols in this file, 'cd' to the top directory of the python source tree after building the interpreter and run: python Lib/keyword.py FUNCTIONS iskeyword = __contains__(...) x.__contains__(y) <==> y in x. DATA __all__ = ['iskeyword', 'kwlist'] kwlist = ['and', 'assert', 'break', 'class', 'continue', 'def', 'del',... while the output using Python 2.3 is NAME keyword - Keywords (from "graminit.c") FILE /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/keyword.py DESCRIPTION This file is automatically generated; please don't muck it up! To update the symbols in this file, 'cd' to the top directory of the python source tree after building the interpreter and run: python Lib/keyword.py FUNCTIONS iskeyword = has_key(...) D.has_key(k) -> 1 if D has a key k, else 0 main() DATA __all__ = ['iskeyword', 'kwlist'] keyword = 'yield' kwdict = {'and': 1, 'assert': 1, 'break': 1, 'class': 1, 'continue': 1... kwlist = ['and', 'assert', 'break', 'class', 'continue', 'def', 'del',... Skip