Did you know that Python has a quite awesome help utility that works for all
kinds of stuff like keywords and modules? You can enter the interactive help
utility by simply typing help() in a prompt.
A beginnner asked on chat.freenode.nets lovely channel ##learnpython, why his
command, help(lambda), did not work. This is because lambda is a keyword
that cannot be used like this, so the interpreter throws a SyntaxError back.
For fun I decided to write a codec where this is possible, only for the
help function (or rather, only for any callable you decide to name help :D)
halp.py adds the halp codec when loaded so you can # coding=halp. This
allows lines like:
help(if)
help(except)The best way to see it in action is to read example.py, fire up an
interpreter and do:
>>> import halp
>>> import example