help "too active" misfeature

[Emile van Sebille]

Note that this still occurs in current cvs, and that since 2.1 there is no
need to import help and when you don't things work right.  Otherwise,
setting the __repr__ and __str__ functions in class Helper of pydoc.py to:

    def __str__(self):
        if inspect.stack()[1][3] == '?':
            self()
            return ''
        return '<pydoc.Helper instance>'

    def __repr__(self):
        return '<pydoc.Helper instance>'

also appears to fix the proble.



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Emile van Sebille
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> "Roman Suzi" <rnd at onego.ru> wrote in message
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> > This reminds me of fabulous MS Outlook Express behaviour:
> >
> > >>> from pydoc import help
> > >>> globals()
> > {
> > ...
> >
> > help>
> >
> > ;-)
> >
> >