[Tutor] help() fails

[Jens Kubieziel]

Hi,

within this group it is often suggested to type help() to get specific
help. I tried this within IDLE and Python prompt and got the following
error:

>>> help()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  NameError: name 'help' is not defined

kubi@QBI050102:~$ python
Python 2.1.3 (#1, Jul 29 2002, 22:34:51)
[GCC 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)] on linux2
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>

IDLE is in version 0.8.

What I am missing here?

TIA
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Jens Kubieziel                                   http://www.kubieziel.de
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