vars(os) starts help in ActivePython!!!
Magnus Lyckå
magnus at thinkware.se
Wed Feb 20 04:50:52 EST 2002
"Keith Farmer" <kfarmer at thuban.org> wrote in message news:<x7Cc8.2126$RJ4.246925423 at newssvr14.news.prodigy.com>...
> The same behavior was seen with wxPython's PyCrust shell, so I suspect it's
Running a non-ActiveState version of Python?
> not (just) activepython, but rather the way the interpreter module's
> written.
But it doesn't happen in the cygwin Python interpreter (also 2.1.1),
or in Linux (2.1.1 again).
Actually:
>>> help
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
NameError: name 'help' is not defined
But even if I do "from pydoc import help" in cygwin or linux, I
don't get this strange behaviour. ActiveState did something to
the Python interpreter...
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ActivePython changes to Python
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This document describes changes made to the core Python sources by
ActiveState Tool Corp. for the ActivePython distribution.
...
3. Add the "help" command which calls Ping's pydoc.help
...
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ActiveState Tool Corp.
18 April, 2001
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Well, I was getting a bit disappointed about not having access
to the nice 2.2 features anyway, so maybe it's time to dump
ActivePython...
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