On 17 November 2017 at 12:36, Stefan Ram <r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > A web page says: > > “The argument to pydoc can be the name of a function, > module, or package, or a dotted reference to a class, > method, or function within a module or module in a package.” [...] > , but not for »pi«: > > from math import pi > help( pi )
math.pi is not "a class method, or function within a module or module in a package". It's a number. I can see why you would want to be able to do this, but technically the help function shows the object's docstring, and numbers don't have docstrings. Paul -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list