On Saturday, December 12, 2015 at 7:36:21 PM UTC-5, Peter Otten wrote:
> Robert wrote:
>
> > On Saturday, December 12, 2015 at 7:05:39 PM UTC-5, Robert wrote:
> >> On Saturday, December 12, 2015 at 6:24:25 PM UTC-5, Erik wrote:
> >> > On 12/12/15 23:08, Robert wrote:
> >> > > In fact, I wanted to run the following code. When it failed, I moved
> >> > > to the original question above.
> >> >
> >> > How did it fail? Tell us what _did_ happen.
> >> >
> >> > It works fine for me:
> >> >
> >> > $ pydoc module1
> >> > Help on module module1:
> >> >
> >> > NAME
> >> > module1
> >> >
> >> > FILE
> >> > /tmp/robert/module1.py
> >> >
> >> > DATA
> >> > a = 'A'
> >> > b = 'B'
> >> > c = 'C'
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > $ pydoc module2
> >> > Help on module module2:
> >> >
> >> > NAME
> >> > module2
> >> >
> >> > FILE
> >> > /tmp/robert/module2.py
> >> >
> >> > DATA
> >> > __all__ = ['a', 'b']
> >> > a = 'A'
> >> > b = 'B'
> >> >
> >> > E.
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> In [1]: pydoc module1
> >> File "<ipython-input-1-cebe02de9045>", line 1
> >> pydoc module1
> >> ^
> >> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> >>
> >>
> >> In [2]:
> >>
> >>
> >> The above code snippet is from here:
> >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/44834/can-someone-explain-all-in-python
> >>
> >> Thanks again.
> >
> > Hi,
> > It turns out that Enthought does not allow pydoc as the link said:
> > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12063718/using-help-and-pydoc-to-list-python-modules-not-working
>
> This is completely unrelated.
>
> >>> help("modules")
>
> for the specific string "modules" triggers a scan for all available modules.
> For other strings like "module1" that represent a module name
>
> >>> help("module1")
>
> should work unless
>
> >>> import module1
>
> fails, too.
Thanks Peter and others. It previously may not be at the right directory.
After that, import pydoc, it works. Great thanks with the following command.
pydoc.help('module1')
Help on module module1:
NAME
module1
FILE
c:\users\rj\pyprj\module1.py
DATA
a = 'A'
b = 'B'
c = 'C'
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