Why doesn't response pydoc on my Python 2.7?

Sat Dec 12 19:17:55 EST 2015

Hi Robert,
On 13/12/15 00:04, Robert wrote:
> 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.

I don't have any experience with "Canopy", but it looks to me like it is 
providing you with an interactive Python environment.
> In [1]: pydoc module1
> File "<ipython-input-1-cebe02de9045>", line 1
> pydoc module1
> ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax

As this is an interactive Python environment, then Python syntax is 
required. Remember what "help(pydoc)" told you:
"""
In the Python interpreter, do "from pydoc import help" to provide online
 help. Calling help(thing) on a Python object documents the object.
"""
So, instead of "pydoc module1" (which is not good Python syntax), do 
what the help document tells you to do within a Python interpreter:
import module1
pydoc.help(module1)
import module2
pydoc.help(module2)
Does that work better?
E.