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Add documentation for the help() built-in; contributed by Ka-Ping Yee.
This is part of SF patch #494622.
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the case for 1 and 1.0).
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\end{funcdesc}
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\begin{funcdesc}{help}{\optional{object}}
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Invoke the built-in help system. (This function is intended for
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interactive use.) If no argument is given, the interactive help
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system starts on the interpreter console. If the argument is a
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string, then the string is looked up as the name of a module,
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function, class, method, keyword, or documentation topic, and a
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help page is printed on the console. If the argument is any other
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kind of object, a help page on the object is generated.
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\end{funcdesc}
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\begin{funcdesc}{hex}{x}
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Convert an integer number (of any size) to a hexadecimal string.
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The result is a valid Python expression. Note: this always yields
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