"help( pi )"

[Paul Moore]

On 17 November 2017 at 12:36, Stefan Ram <ram at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>   A web page says:
>
> “The argument to pydoc can be the name of a function,
> module, or package, or a dotted reference to a class,
> method, or function within a module or module in a package.”
[...]
>   , but not for »pi«:
>
> from math import pi
> help( pi )

math.pi is not "a class method, or function within a module or module
in a package". It's a number.

I can see why you would want to be able to do this, but technically
the help function shows the object's docstring, and numbers don't have
docstrings.

Paul