Robert <rxjw...@gmail.com> writes: > I want to use pydoc as some online tutorial shows
Which online tutorial? Please give the URL to the page that instructs you to use ‘pydoc’ in that manner. > >>> import pydoc Allows you to use, in Python code, the ‘pydoc’ module by name. > >>> pydoc > <module 'pydoc' from 'C:\Python27\lib\pydoc.pyc'> Accesses the ‘pydoc’ name. Because this is the interactive Python shell, it displays the result of that access: a module object. > >>> pydoc sys > SyntaxError: invalid syntax > >>> import sys > >>> pydoc sys > SyntaxError: invalid syntax Yes, using two names in a row like that is invalid Python syntax. > >>> help(pydoc) > Help on module pydoc: > ...... Gives help from the module object you access through the name ‘pydoc’. I suspect the tutorial instructs you to invoke the ‘pydoc’ *command* on your operating system, not use it within Python. But I can only guess, until you show us which page from which tutorial you're referring to. -- \ “Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.” | `\ —Melvin Kranzberg's First Law of Technology | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list