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I guess that's because you don't know how function arguments work in python but that's not really the fault of the help documentation


Astonishing. As if help() cannot be improved and this is not a 'fault'.


help() should not have to re-teach you the syntax of the language every time you look up an individual help topic, though. Even though this "/" stuff is uncommonly used, it seems like it should have its own help topic. Otherwise, this means that help() has to re-explain every piece of syntax that might be considered "uncommonly used", which is kind of hard to draw a line for.




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