Calling for help() about the topic 'FILES' returns no documentation found for 'FILES' ------------------------------ Python 2.7.3 (default, Apr 14 2012, 08:58:41) [GCC] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> help('topics') Here is a list of available topics. Enter any topic name to get more help. ASSERTION DEBUGGING LITERALS SEQUENCEMETHODS2 ASSIGNMENT DELETION LOOPING SEQUENCES ATTRIBUTEMETHODS DICTIONARIES MAPPINGMETHODS SHIFTING ATTRIBUTES DICTIONARYLITERALS MAPPINGS SLICINGS AUGMENTEDASSIGNMENT DYNAMICFEATURES METHODS SPECIALATTRIBUTES BACKQUOTES ELLIPSIS MODULES SPECIALIDENTIFIERS BASICMETHODS EXCEPTIONS NAMESPACES SPECIALMETHODS BINARY EXECUTION NONE STRINGMETHODS BITWISE EXPRESSIONS NUMBERMETHODS STRINGS BOOLEAN FILES NUMBERS SUBSCRIPTS CALLABLEMETHODS FLOAT OBJECTS TRACEBACKS CALLS FORMATTING OPERATORS TRUTHVALUE CLASSES FRAMEOBJECTS PACKAGES TUPLELITERALS CODEOBJECTS FRAMES POWER TUPLES COERCIONS FUNCTIONS PRECEDENCE TYPEOBJECTS COMPARISON IDENTIFIERS PRINTING TYPES COMPLEX IMPORTING PRIVATENAMES UNARY CONDITIONAL INTEGER RETURNING UNICODE CONTEXTMANAGERS LISTLITERALS SCOPING CONVERSIONS LISTS SEQUENCEMETHODS1 >>> help('FILES') no documentation found for 'FILES' -------------------------------------------------------- best regards stephan
Hello. The 'File objects' section was removed in Python 3, with this issue http://bugs.python.org/issue7508, but not the topic from pydoc.py. As I understand, there is no point in having this, because there isn't a `file` type anymore. The attached patched removes the `FILES` topic, which used an undefined reference ('bltin-file-objects', removed in the mentioned issue).
The bltin-file-objects was not referenced in pyspecific.py from which this data was generated. Added it and fixed it. Verified that it is available in 2.7 now.
