Thank you to all who have responded.
I have a bit of an update that reflects some of these suggestions. I was able
to
snag some time from one of the more experienced engineers and here is what we
found:
On my system (Windows 7) the path to the lib file is C:\Python26\lib and
"pydoc.py" is in this folder. So, he had me run:
python -m pydoc raw_input
at that prompt. Sure enough, this returned what looked like help information
for
raw_input.
And, when we he had me follow the trail: Start > Control Panel > System >
Advanced Settings > Environment Variables Python26 was in the PATH.
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From: Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info>
To: tutor@python.org
Sent: Fri, November 12, 2010 5:44:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Tutor] 'pydoc' is not recognized as an internal or external
command, ...
R Johnson wrote:
> 'pydoc' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable
> program
>or batch file.
This means that the program "pydoc" is not installed on your computer, or is
installed somewhere where the operating system (I'm guessing you're using
Windows?) can't find it.
Use the Find File command, and see if you can find something called "pydoc".
You
may need to call the full path to the program, e.g.:
C:\My Documents\path\to\program\pydoc raw_input
or you may need to install it :)
> So, I go back to the terminal and type: python
> Then I type: pydoc raw_input
> The computer spits back: File "<stdin>", line1
> pydoc raw_input
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> (There is a carrot symbol under the "t" of input.)
pydoc is an external tool made with Python, it is not a Python command you can
run. However, Python does come with an internal tool that is nearly as
powerful:
help().
>From the Python prompt, type:
help(raw_input)
and Enter, and you will get something very close to what pydoc would have given
you.
-- Steven
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