figure - starting pydoc means opening command (terminalwindow to start the server as with any serveryour system may prompt you for permissions for exampleyou may see warning from your firewall telling you that pydoc is attempting to access the local system you need to give pydoc permission to work with the system so that you can see the information it provides any virus detection that you have installed may need permission to let pydoc continue as well some platformssuch as windowsmay require an elevation in privileges to run pydoc normallythe server automatically opens new browser window for youas shown in figure - this window contains links to the various modules that are contained on your systemincluding any custom modules you create and include in the python path to see information about any moduleyou can simply click its link the command prompt provides you with two commands to control the server you simply type the letter associated with the command and press enter to activate it here are the two commandsbstarts new copy of the default browser with the index page loaded qstops the server when you're done browsing the help informationmake sure that you stop the server by typing and pressing enter at the command prompt stopping the server frees any resources it uses and closes any holes you made in your firewall to accommodate pydoc