help() fails for some builtin topics

[doko42]

BPO	642168
Nosy	@doko42

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closed_at = <Date 2003-02-07.20:57:44.000>
created_at = <Date 2002-11-22.07:54:40.000>
labels = ['docs']
title = 'help() fails for some builtin topics'
updated_at = <Date 2003-02-07.20:57:44.000>
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actor = 'nnorwitz'
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url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue642168'
versions = ['Python 2.3']

[doko42]

[seen with 2.2.2 and current CVS]

Python's help() function can display some manual
sections, in addition
to the docstrings of various modules and functions.
However, for
some (not all) things this fails.

Python 2.2.2 (#4, Oct 15 2002, 04:21:28)
[GCC 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for
more information.

help> and
could not read docs from
/usr/share/doc/python2.2-doc/html/ref/lambda.html

help> topics

Here is a list of available topics. Enter any topic
name to get more
help.

ASSERTION DEBUGGING LITERALS
SEQUENCEMETHODS1
ASSIGNMENT DELETION LOOPING
SEQUENCEMETHODS2
ATTRIBUTEMETHODS DICTIONARIES MAPPINGMETHODS
SEQUENCES
ATTRIBUTES DICTIONARYLITERALS MAPPINGS
SHIFTING
AUGMENTEDASSIGNMENT ELLIPSIS METHODS
SLICINGS
BACKQUOTES EXCEPTIONS MODULES
SPECIALATTRIBUTES
BASICMETHODS EXECUTION NAMESPACES
SPECIALIDENTIFIERS
BINARY EXPRESSIONS NONE
SPECIALMETHODS
BITWISE FILES NUMBERMETHODS
STRINGMETHODS
BOOLEAN FLOAT NUMBERS
STRINGS
CALLABLEMETHODS FORMATTING OBJECTS
SUBSCRIPTS
CALLS FRAMEOBJECTS OPERATORS
TRACEBACKS
CLASSES FRAMES PACKAGES
TRUTHVALUE
CODEOBJECTS FUNCTIONS POWER
TUPLELITERALS
COERCIONS IDENTIFIERS PRECEDENCE
TUPLES
COMPARISON IMPORTING PRINTING
TYPEOBJECTS
COMPLEX INTEGER PRIVATENAMES
TYPES
CONDITIONAL LISTLITERALS RETURNING
UNARY
CONVERSIONS LISTS SCOPING
UNICODE

help> spam
no Python documentation found for 'spam'

help> TRUTHVALUE

Related help topics: if, while, and, or, not, BASICMETHODS

help> COERCIONS

help> UNICODE
could not read docs from
/usr/share/doc/python2.2-doc/html/ref/unicode.html

[nnorwitz]

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Fixed for UNICODE (same as string), and/or/not (same as
BOOLEANS). I don't know of any other problems, so I'm
closing this bug.

Checked in as:

• Lib/pydoc.py 1.76 and 1.56.8.8