Why doesn't response pydoc on my Python 2.7?

[Ben Finney]

Robert <rxjwg98 at gmail.com> writes:

> I want to use pydoc as some online tutorial shows

Which online tutorial? Please give the URL to the page that instructs
you to use ‘pydoc’ in that manner.

> >>> import pydoc

Allows you to use, in Python code, the ‘pydoc’ module by name.

> >>> pydoc
> <module 'pydoc' from 'C:\Python27\lib\pydoc.pyc'>

Accesses the ‘pydoc’ name. Because this is the interactive Python shell,
it displays the result of that access: a module object.

> >>> pydoc sys
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> >>> import sys
> >>> pydoc sys
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Yes, using two names in a row like that is invalid Python syntax.

> >>> help(pydoc)
> Help on module pydoc:
> ......

Gives help from the module object you access through the name ‘pydoc’.


I suspect the tutorial instructs you to invoke the ‘pydoc’ *command* on
your operating system, not use it within Python.

But I can only guess, until you show us which page from which tutorial
you're referring to.

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Ben Finney