help "too active" misfeature

[Roman Suzi]

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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