help "too active" misfeature

[Emile van Sebille]

Probably, if it's not already in there.

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Emile van Sebille
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"Roman Suzi" <rnd at onego.ru> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 1 Sep 2001, Emile van Sebille wrote:
>
> >Note that this still occurs in current cvs, and that since 2.1 there is
no
> >need to import help and when you don't things work right.  Otherwise,
> >setting the __repr__ and __str__ functions in class Helper of pydoc.py
to:
> >
> >    def __str__(self):
> >        if inspect.stack()[1][3] == '?':
> >            self()
> >            return ''
> >        return '<pydoc.Helper instance>'
> >
> >    def __repr__(self):
> >        return '<pydoc.Helper instance>'
> >
> >also appears to fix the proble.
>
> Well. But is it bug or feature? Do I need to post bug report on sf?
>
> Sincerely yours, Roman Suzi
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