Why does py2exe remove `help` and `license`?

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Published on 2010-05-09T22:46:50Z Indexed on 2010/05/09 22:58 UTC
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I packaged my Python app with py2exe. My app is a wxPython GUI, in which there is an interactive Python shell.

I noticed that I can't do help(whatever) in the shell. I investigated a bit and discovered that after the py2exe process, 3 items were missing from __builtin__. These are help, license, and another one I haven't discovered.

Why is this happening and how can I stop it? I want the users of my program to be able to use the help function of Python.

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