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Update documentation for help, quit, and exit constants to reflect that they can be accessed directly in the interactive interpreter without parentheses, in addition to the traditional function call syntax.
Co-authored-by: Stan Ulbrych <89152624+StanFromIreland@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Stan Ulbrych <89152624+StanFromIreland@users.noreply.github.com>
@@ -97,15 +97,17 @@ should not be used in programs. | |||
exit(code=None) | |||
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Objects that when printed, print a message like "Use quit() or Ctrl-D |
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This must be changed.
See
○ → python3.13
Python 3.13.0 (main, Oct 8 2024, 08:51:28) [GCC 11.4.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> quit
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Edit: I was wrong. Nothing to do here.
@@ -97,15 +97,17 @@ should not be used in programs. | |||
exit(code=None) | |||
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Objects that when printed, print a message like "Use quit() or Ctrl-D | |||
(i.e. EOF) to exit", and when called, raise :exc:`SystemExit` with the | |||
(i.e. EOF) to exit", and when accessed directly in the interactive | |||
interpreter or called as functions, raise :exc:`SystemExit` with the | |||
specified exit code. | |||
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.. data:: help | |||
:noindex: | |||
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Object that when printed, prints the message "Type help() for interactive |
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And here.
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Run print(help)
and see what is returned
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Run
print(help)
and see what is returned
wow, my bad.
I didn't notice the difference between printed and accessed directly. Sorry about that.
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LGTM
Thanks @Antraxmin for the PR, and @corona10 for merging it 🌮🎉.. I'm working now to backport this PR to: 3.13, 3.14. |
(cherry picked from commit d6719c6) Co-authored-by: Chaemin-Lim <antraxmin@naver.com>
(cherry picked from commit d6719c6) Co-authored-by: Chaemin-Lim <antraxmin@naver.com>
GH-137822 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.14 branch. |
GH-137823 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.13 branch. |
Update documentation for help, quit, and exit constants to reflect that they can be accessed directly in the interactive interpreter without parentheses, in addition to the traditional function call syntax.
📚 Documentation preview 📚: https://cpython-previews--137798.org.readthedocs.build/