[Python-Dev] a quit that actually quits (original) (raw)

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Thu Dec 29 17:20:22 CET 2005


Fernando Perez wrote:

In [1]: x='hello'

In [2]: x? /.../ Docstring: str(object) -> string Return a nice string representation of the object. If the argument is a string, the return value is the same object.

I'm not sure what I find more confusing: a help system that claims that the variable x returns a nice string representation of an object, or that there's no help to be found for "hello".

x = "hello" help(x) no Python documentation found for 'hello'



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