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IDLE: "help" is missing from the sign-on message #78037

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matrixise opened this issue Jun 14, 2018 · 11 comments
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IDLE: "help" is missing from the sign-on message #78037

matrixise opened this issue Jun 14, 2018 · 11 comments
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3.7 (EOL) end of life 3.8 only security fixes topic-IDLE type-bug An unexpected behavior, bug, or error

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BPO 33856
Nosy @terryjreedy, @stevendaprano, @zware, @matrixise, @ammaraskar, @miss-islington
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  • bpo-33856: Add "help" in the welcome message of IDLE #7755
  • [3.7] bpo-33856: Add "help" to the welcome message of IDLE (GH-7755) #7756
  • [3.6] bpo-33856: Add "help" to the welcome message of IDLE (GH-7755) #7757
  • [2.7] bpo-33856: Add "help" to the welcome message of IDLE (GH-7755) #7758
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closed_at = <Date 2018-06-16.22:15:55.830>
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labels = ['3.8', 'expert-IDLE', 'type-bug', '3.7']
title = 'IDLE: "help" is missing from the sign-on message'
updated_at = <Date 2018-06-16.22:15:55.829>
user = 'https://github.com/matrixise'

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    What do you mean "type help"?

    help() is added by the site module, if you've done something to skip running the site module it won't be added.

    Can you give an example of what you are trying to do, what happens and what you expected?

    Are you running in IDLE or the regular REPL?

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    Hi Steven,

    On Thursday, I gave a python training with some Windows computers and I have executer python, just the REPL, normally, you have

    Python 3.6.5 (default, Apr 4 2018, 15:01:18)
    [GCC 7.3.1 20180303 (Red Hat 7.3.1-5)] on linux
    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

    >>

    But I didn't see the message with "help" in the prompt on the Windows computer. I would like to confirm with the standard bundle of python.org but I don't have a windows computer. and I didn't check the author of this bundle, but it was the 3.6.x version.

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    Can't recreate from latest Python 3.6.5 downloaded off python.org

    > D:\Python365\python.exe
    Python 3.6.5 (v3.6.5:f59c0932b4, Mar 28 2018, 16:07:46) [MSC v.1900 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

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    zware commented Jun 16, 2018

    I suspect you either had a non-python.org version of Python, or had the embeddable distribution rather than a proper installation (the embeddable distribution should not be used unless you're embedding, hence the name :)). Either way, the standard distribution started normally imports site by default, which monkeypatches help into builtins on all platforms.

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    @matrixise
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    Hi Zach, in fact, it's not a problem with Python itself, but with Idle.

    I just downloaded a virtualbox image via (https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/) and started the installation of Python 3.6.5

    and when you execute IDLE, "help()" is not present, but this sentence is present in the prompt of python3.

    I am going to provide a small patch.

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    New changeset 9d49f85 by Terry Jan Reedy (Stéphane Wirtel) in branch 'master':
    bpo-33856: Add "help" to the welcome message of IDLE (GH-7755)
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    Thanks for the clarification.

    >> help works

    but is not in the sign-on message, even though it is by far the most important item mentioned. I just merged to master.

    @terryjreedy terryjreedy added 3.7 (EOL) end of life 3.8 only security fixes topic-IDLE labels Jun 16, 2018
    @terryjreedy terryjreedy reopened this Jun 16, 2018
    @terryjreedy terryjreedy changed the title Type "help" is not present on win32 IDLE: "help" is missing from the sign-on message Jun 16, 2018
    @terryjreedy terryjreedy self-assigned this Jun 16, 2018
    @terryjreedy terryjreedy added the type-bug An unexpected behavior, bug, or error label Jun 16, 2018
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    New changeset 6bb7704 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.7':
    bpo-33856: Add "help" to the welcome message of IDLE (GH-7755)
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    New changeset 25531fb by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.6':
    bpo-33856: Add "help" to the welcome message of IDLE (GH-7755)
    25531fb

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    New changeset c488558 by Terry Jan Reedy in branch '2.7':
    [2.7] bpo-33856: Add "help" to the welcome message of IDLE (GH-7755) (GH-7758)
    c488558

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