Why doesn't response pydoc on my Python 2.7?

[Robert]

On Saturday, December 12, 2015 at 6:24:25 PM UTC-5, Erik wrote:
> On 12/12/15 23:08, Robert wrote:
> > In fact, I wanted to run the following code. When it failed, I moved to
> > the original question above.
> 
> How did it fail? Tell us what _did_ happen.
> 
> It works fine for me:
> 
> $ pydoc module1
> Help on module module1:
> 
> NAME
>      module1
> 
> FILE
>      /tmp/robert/module1.py
> 
> DATA
>      a = 'A'
>      b = 'B'
>      c = 'C'
> 
> 
> $ pydoc module2
> Help on module module2:
> 
> NAME
>      module2
> 
> FILE
>      /tmp/robert/module2.py
> 
> DATA
>      __all__ = ['a', 'b']
>      a = 'A'
>      b = 'B'
> 
> E.

Excuse me for the incomplete information on previous posts.
Here is the message when I run it on Canopy (module1.py and module2.py 
are in the current folder):

Welcome to Canopy's interactive data-analysis environment!
 with pylab-backend set to: qt
Type '?' for more information.

In [1]: pydoc module1
  File "<ipython-input-1-cebe02de9045>", line 1
    pydoc module1
                ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
 

In [2]: 


The above code snippet is from here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/44834/can-someone-explain-all-in-python

Thanks again.