[issue17158] help() module searcher text improvement

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[issue17158] help() module searcher text improvement

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 4f84fe5a997b by Terry Jan Reedy in branch 'default': Closes #17158: Add 'symbols' to help() welcome message; clarify 'modules spam' http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/4f84fe5a997b -- nosy: +python-dev resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review

[issue17158] help() module searcher text improvement

Senthil Kumaran added the comment: The patch looks good to me. This change is helpful and definitely an improvement over the existing text. Please go ahead with committing it, Terry. Thanks. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue17158] help() module searcher text improvement

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Looking further at the pydoc code, I see that "Here is a list. Enter any listed item to get more help", with both sentences printed before the list, is normal. Having a post-list prompt for the list of all modules is the exception. So I would no longer make th

[issue17158] help() module searcher text improvement

Senthil Kumaran added the comment: You will stumble on that message, only if you give help("module ") and note that could be any module in the PYTHONPATH. We can change to show the text only if the module is a valid module, but I think, it is costly do that computation for help text. A better ap

[issue17158] help() module searcher text improvement

New submission from Ramchandra Apte: help("modules spam") prints out "Here is a list of matching modules. Enter any module name to get more help." before it has even found the modules. This gives the impression that it has found the modules yet it hasn't printed the modules yet. I would sugge