Redirecting input of IDLE window

[Joel Goldstick]

On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 4:47 AM, Friedrich Rentsch <anthra.norell at bluewin.ch
> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>     I work interactively in an IDLE window most of the time and find "help
> (...)" very useful to summarize things. The display comes up directly
> (doesn't return a text, which I could edit, assign or store). I suspect
> that there are ways to redirect the display, say to a file. Thanks for
> suggestions.
>
>
> Frederic
>
>
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do you know about the utility called pydoc?  Type it at a command line to
learn more.  It displays information like help does in a python
environment, but you can also redirect it to a file

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