docs: def help(self, topic=None):
          """ Returns the formatted, colored help """
          if not topic:
              topic = 'workbench'
  
          # It's possible to ask for help on something that doesn't exist
          # so we'll catch the exception and push back an object that
          # indicates we didn't find what they were asking for
          try:
              return self.work_request('help_formatter', topic)['help_formatter']['help']
          except WorkBench.DataNotFound as e:
  
              # Okay this is a bit tricky we want to give the user a nice error
              # message that has both the md5 of what they were looking for and
              # a nice informative message that explains what might have happened
              sample_md5 = e.args[0]
              return '%s%s\n\t%s%s%s' % (color.Yellow, sample_md5, color.Green, e.message(), color.Normal)