On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Is it just me, or is this basically useless? > >>>> help(object) > Help on class object in module builtins: > > class object > | The most base type > >>>> > > Surely a few more words, or a pointer to this > http://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#object, would be better?
It's good enough to give anyone that's seen it before a reminder of what it is. pydoc is useless or worse if you don't know anything about what you're reading. For example, the HTML docs frequently point out potential security vulnerabilities in usages of libraries where pydoc does not. (The wording *is* awkward, though.) -- Devin -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
