[Python-Dev] undocumented help() function change in Python 3.4?

R. David Murray rdmurray at bitdance.com
Tue Mar 11 02:29:29 CET 2014


On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 14:15:28 +0100, =?UTF-8?B?SnVya28gR29zcG9kbmV0acSH?= <jurko.gospodnetic at pke.hr> wrote:
>    Hi.
> 
> On 8.3.2014. 6:48, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> > Yeah, the changes to help() are doubly indirect - help() uses pydoc
> > which uses inspect, and inspect saw a lot of changes.
> >
> > I'll make a few updates to the What's New to help make the
> > consequences of this clearer.
> 
>    Just looked through the latest 3.4rc3 release and nothing related to 
> this seems to have been included yet.

The whatsnew updates (including the one for help) weren't copied into
rc3.  They will be in final though, unless Larry forgets.  You can see
them here:

    http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/3.4.html

--David


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