Message4725

In python2.5 you are allowed to call python with a link, and you may
call help() then:

roland@dios:~> which python
/usr/bin/python
roland@dios:~> ls -l /usr/bin/python
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9  9. Jan 19:52 /usr/bin/python -> python2.5
roland@dios:~> python
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Dec  1 2008, 17:47:46)
[GCC 4.3.1 20080507 (prerelease) [gcc-4_3-branch revision 135036]] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> help
Type help() for interactive help, or help(object) for help about object.
>>> help()

Welcome to Python 2.5!  This is the online help utility.

If this is your first time using Python, you should definitely check out
the tutorial on the Internet at http://www.python.org/doc/tut/.

Enter the name of any module, keyword, or topic to get help on writing
Python programs and using Python modules.  To quit this help utility and
return to the interpreter, just type "quit".

To get a list of available modules, keywords, or topics, type "modules",
"keywords", or "topics".  Each module also comes with a one-line summary
of what it does; to list the modules whose summaries contain a given word
such as "spam", type "modules spam".

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