How to use pydoc?

[Peter Otten]

newsposter at cox.net wrote:

>>>> import pydoc
>>>> import sys
>>>> sys.version
> '2.4.2 (#67, Sep 28 2005, 12:41:11) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)]'
>>>> pydoc sys
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>>>
> 
> The documentation for pydoc says:
> "Run "pydoc <name>" to show documentation on something."
> 
> What am I missing?

In the interpreter, just do

>>> help(sys)

or

>>> help("sys")

if you didn't already import the module.

What you tried is what you would do on the command line. I'm not sure it
works on windows, though, but

python -m pydoc sys

Should work on both windows and unix. 

Peter