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| author | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2014-04-19 16:59:30 (GMT) |
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| committer | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2014-04-19 16:59:30 (GMT) |
| commit | 3d050ddf195a4473051f82e47b969c9b196dfa09 (patch) | |
| tree | 82e230b1150cce6057e10e4b5f1116cc9f652e5b /Lib/pydoc.py | |
| parent | 658af3137237407549e71cc1c3a3dd4f2c86b675 (diff) | |
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#9364: Improve the text printed by help(pydoc) and help(help).
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diff --git a/Lib/pydoc.py b/Lib/pydoc.py index 006212b..5f12832 100755 --- a/Lib/pydoc.py +++ b/Lib/pydoc.py @@ -1,8 +1,9 @@ #!/usr/bin/env python3 """Generate Python documentation in HTML or text for interactive use. -In the Python interpreter, do "from pydoc import help" to provide -help. Calling help(thing) on a Python object documents the object. +At the Python interactive prompt, calling help(thing) on a Python object +documents the object, and calling help() starts up an interactive +help session. Or, at the shell command line outside of Python: @@ -1865,7 +1866,7 @@ has the same effect as typing a particular string at the help> prompt. def intro(self): self.output.write(''' -Welcome to Python %s! This is the interactive help utility. +Welcome to Python %s's help utility! If this is your first time using Python, you should definitely check out the tutorial on the Internet at http://docs.python.org/%s/tutorial/. |