text_combined: anand balachandran pillai crsxanplgmailcom hi recently noticed help function behaves rather unhelpfully one tries builtin keywords opposed functions example taking much abused lambda newbie might try following get enlightened lambda helplambda file line 1 helplambda syntaxerror invalid syntax gets unhelpful syntax error similarly keyword example python versions 30 helpexec file line 1 helpexec syntaxerror invalid syntax dont problem help helping keywords problem advertises python3 helphelp help _helper module site type help interactive help helpobject help object advertisement gives help object newbies python might interpret help anything including keywords check bug situation fixed py3k would great suggest help either gives singleline help keywords also gracefully die proper error string telling python keyword instead ugly syntaxerror thanks anand _______________________________________________ python3000 mailing list smsbmo9552pythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopython3000 unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspython3000python300040tangomucom thu 07 aug 2008 065229 0530 python3000 help builtin keywords