Bizarre error from help()

[Peter Hansen]

Ben Finney wrote:
> 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>

Which, unless I misunderstand, would do nothing to change the behaviour 
of the OP's situation unless the mistakingly named "string.py" module 
was actually inside a package.  If it was just in the current directory 
at the time, I don't think the PEP328 would have affected the situation.

-Peter