Trac ticket #6820 (http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6820)
makes the following change:
sage: help()
no longer runs the interactive Python help utility. Instead, it
prints a message:
sage: help()
Welcome to Sage 4.2! To view the Sage tutorial in your web
browser,
type 'tutorial()', and to view the (very detailed) Sage reference
manual,
type 'manual()'. For help on any function, for example
'matrix_plot', type
'matrix_plot?' to see a help message, type 'browse_sage_doc
(matrix_plot)'
to view the same message in a web browser, and type
'matrix_plot??' to look
at the function's source code.
To use Python's online help utility, type 'python_help()'.
(The ticket also implements the commands "tutorial", "manual", and
"python_help".) This is potentially a significant change, so I
thought I would bring it up for discussion. Is it a good idea?
John
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