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    >> Nothing.  It's just a doc string containing a bunch of hex codes.  Doc
    >> strings are ignored by the interpreter (AIUI).

    Benjamin> I mean what happens when you type help() into the interactive
    Benjamin> console on the command line? You will see the docstrings, and
    Benjamin> there will be a whole bunch of random hex characters there.

If an IDE can be trained to recognize and display such a picture I sorta
assume help() can be trained to recognize and ignore it.

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