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 >>> -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > 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 -- Joel Goldstick http://joelgoldstick.com/blog http://cc-baseballstats.info/stats/birthdays