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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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date Tue, 18 Dec 2001 16:31:08 +0000
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1 \section{\module{__main__} ---
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2 Top-level script environment}
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4 \declaremodule[main]{builtin}{__main__}
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5 \modulesynopsis{The environment where the top-level script is run.}
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7 This module represents the (otherwise anonymous) scope in which the
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8 interpreter's main program executes --- commands read either from
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9 standard input, from a script file, or from an interactive prompt. It
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10 is this environment in which the idiomatic ``conditional script''
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11 stanza causes a script to run:
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13 \begin{verbatim}
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14 if __name__ == "__main__":
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15 main()
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16 \end{verbatim}