Why doesn't response pydoc on my Python 2.7?

[Robert]

On Saturday, December 12, 2015 at 7:05:39 PM UTC-5, Robert wrote:
> 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.

Hi,
It turns out that Enthought does not allow pydoc as the link said:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12063718/using-help-and-pydoc-to-list-python-modules-not-working

Thanks,