How to import pydoc and then use it?

[Albert Hopkins]

On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 13:38 -0700, mrstevegross wrote:
> I know how to use pydoc from the command line. However, because of
> complicated environmental setup, it would be preferable to run it
> within a python script as a native API call. That is, my python runner
> looks a bit like this:
> 
>   import pydoc
>   pydoc.generate_html_docs_for(someFile)
> 
> However, it's not clear to me from the pydoc documentation which
> function calls I need to use to make this behavior work. Any ideas?

Did you try 'pydoc pydoc'? ;)

>>> import pydoc
>>> htmldoc = pydoc.HTMLDoc()
>>> htmldoc_for_pydoc = htmldoc(pydoc)
>>> print htmldoc_for_pydoc