[IronPython] help in IronPython 2.6

[Michael Foord]

Dino Viehland wrote:
> We could patch our site.py and if worse comes to worse we may just do
> that.  But we've never re-distributed a modified version of the std
> lib and we're not really wanting to start doing that.  Rather we're
> trying to work through things on our side to make the changes and
> submit them back to the std lib.  We hope to have this done by the
> RC - but if not we'll obviously need to look at our options closely.
>   

Well I can submit a patch to site.py in Python 2.6 myself - although it 
probably won't be in a *released* version of Python by the time you RC. 
Is that helpful or not?

Michael

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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users-
>> bounces at lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of Michael Foord
>> Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2009 8:03 AM
>> To: Discussion of IronPython
>> Subject: [IronPython] help in IronPython 2.6
>>
>> Hello guys,
>>
>> It really sucks that from a vanilla install of IronPython 2.6 'help'
>> doesn't work in the interactive interpreter. :-(
>>
>> Of course it works if you switch frames on - but I don't think having
>> frames on by default is the right solution (perhaps only if you
>> entering
>> an interactive interpreter session where performance is less likely to
>> be an issue?).
>>
>> Can you patch your version of site.py to fix this?
>>
>> Michael
>>
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