who put python together the license(command describes the usage agreement between you and the copyright holder howeverthe command you most want to know about is simply help(to enter help modetype helpand press enter notice that you must include the parentheses after the command even though they don' appear in the help text every python command has parentheses associated with it after you enter this commandpython goes into help mode and you see display similar to the one shown in figure - figure - you ask python about other commands in help mode you can always tell that you're in help mode by the helpprompt that you see in the python window as long as you see the helppromptyou know that you're in help mode asking for help to obtain helpyou need to know what question to ask the initial help message that you see when you go into help mode (refer to figure - provides some helpful tips about the kinds of questions you can ask if you want to explore pythonthe three basic topics are modules keywords topics