Bugs item #925628, was opened at 2004-03-29 16:34 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by tjreedy You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=925628&group_id=5470

Category: Python Interpreter Core Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 2 Submitted By: Jim Jewett (jimjjewett) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: help does not help with imported objects

Initial Comment: help(re) just says it is a wrapper for sre. To get actually help, you need to explicitly import sre as well.

re.__doc__ = re.__doc__ + sre.__doc__ helps, but still does not list information on classes or exported functions.

Specific requests, such as

help(re.subn)

do work; it is only the module-level help that is lacking when a module reexports imported objects.

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Comment By: Terry J. Reedy (tjreedy) Date: 2004-03-30 12:50

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I am not sure a see a bug here (as opposed to enhancement request). re.__all__ and dir(re) list exported names. help (re.engine) gets the multipage doc from the wrapped engine without importing it. The re doc string could be enhanced by adding a FOR MORE section that says so.

Automatically adding sre would have been wrong when there were multiple engines in the distribution. Not sure if are or will be in 2.4, but there could be in the future again.

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