Why doesn't response pydoc on my Python 2.7?

[Robert]

On Saturday, December 12, 2015 at 7:36:21 PM UTC-5, Peter Otten wrote:
> Robert wrote:
> 
> > 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
> 
> This is completely unrelated.
> 
> >>> help("modules")
> 
> for the specific string "modules" triggers a scan for all available modules. 
> For other strings like "module1" that represent a module name
> 
> >>> help("module1")
> 
> should work unless
> 
> >>> import module1
> 
> fails, too.

Thanks Peter and others. It previously may not be at the right directory.
After that, import pydoc, it works. Great thanks with the following command.


pydoc.help('module1')
Help on module module1:

NAME
    module1

FILE
    c:\users\rj\pyprj\module1.py

DATA
    a = 'A'
    b = 'B'
    c = 'C'