Typing help brings up a screen that says type help()

[Joel Goldstick]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Seymore4Head
<Seymore4Head at hotmail.invalid> wrote:
> What is the logic behind that?

It would seem that help() is a function.  You are in the python shell
when you type it, and it runs the function that displays help.

> Couldn't help do the same thing as help()?
> But the reason I ask is that I see (from a video of Getting Started
> with Python) that older versions of python would allow ? as help.  I
> get syntax error when I try ?
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