[ python-Bugs-489256 ] Lib/profile.doc should be updated

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Bugs item #489256, was opened at 2001-12-05 06:51
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Category: Documentation
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Anthony Baxter (anthonybaxter)
>Assigned to: Johannes Gijsbers (jlgijsbers)
Summary: Lib/profile.doc should be updated

Initial Comment:
What's Lib/profile.doc doing there? Is it still needed?
Why is it in Lib, anyway?

(it seems very old - is it still up to date after all
the hackery? doesn't seem so)

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Comment By: Johannes Gijsbers (jlgijsbers)
Date: 2005-01-09 02:27

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I would like to go ahead with removing profile.doc and the
help() function from profile.py for Python 2.5. They're not
really all that helpful, they're in an unexpected place, and
they're undocumented.  I'll remove them if there are no
objections within some weeks. 

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Comment By: Fred L. Drake, Jr. (fdrake)
Date: 2001-12-05 07:08

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profile.doc is used as the help file for profile.py, and is
read by an external pager (sloppily) using the
profile.help() function.

Either the document should be updated and the help()
function should be more intelligent about the pager, or...
...the document and the help() function should be removed. 
This is a possibility since help() is not documented.

profile.doc should be updated for Python 2.2; other changes
will need to wait for Python 2.3.

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