[Python-Dev] Online help PEP

[Greg Ewing]

Paul Prescod:
> Guido:
> > Why are the string quotes needed?  When are they useful?
> When you haven't imported the thing you are asking about.

It would be interesting if the quoted form allowed you to
extract doc info from a module *without* having the side
effect of importing it.

This could no doubt be done for pure Python modules.
Would be rather tricky for extension modules, though,
I expect.

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