(I know replying to self is a sure sign of aging :-) A quick update: after installing the 'tkinter' fedora package (still in live-cd mode), the following 3 lines script does what "pydoc -g " should:
import Tkinter
import pydoc
pydoc.gui()
HTH,
Bernard.
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