On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 4:40 PM, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > By the way, the current help() already loads a module if you pass its name > as a string: >
Yes, which is the basis of my alternate exec trick:
exec(tb.tb_frame.f_code, tb.tb_frame.f_globals, {n: n})
Basically it creates a new locals dict that just has (eg) re="re",
which allows help(re) to function as help("re").
ChrisA
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