[IronPython] IronPython and help

Michael Foord fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk
Sat Apr 21 02:19:15 CEST 2007


Sanghyeon Seo wrote:
> 2007/4/21, Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk>:
>   
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I see that one of the improvements listed for IronPython 1.1 is an
>> extension to the help system.
>>
>> I'm finding that when the Python standard library is set in
>> IRONPYTHONPATH, help doesn't seem to work *at all*.
>>     
>
> This is because site.py in Python standard library *overwrites* builtin
> help function. :(
>   

Is there a way to have the Python standard library on my path - but not 
have site.py imported ?

I guess the answer is to have another 'site.py' earlier in the path... 
hmmm...

Thanks.

Michael
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/ironpython/index.shtml



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