The version of Python embedded in Sublime Text is not a completely full distribution, unlike for example the ones from python.org, Anaconda, etc. It doesn't include all modules and all functionality, and help()
is one of the items that was dropped. The help()
function is implemented in pydoc.py
in a "regular" Python distribution, but I'm unsure how you would try and implement it in Sublime.
Instead of using the Ctrl` console, I find it easiest to run a Python 3 interpreter inside SublimeREPL
and do my work from there.