Bizarre error from help()

[Ben Finney]

Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote:
> I've got a directory where I keep all sorts of little snippets of
> python code for testing.  When I start up python in that directory,
> I get the error I reported.  It turns out, I've got a file called
> "string.py" in it [...]
> 
> something in the help system must be doing an "import string".

All hail the coming of PEP 328:

    <URL:http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0328.html>

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Ben Finney