module you want documentation forpress enterselect the moduleand then press "go to selected(or omit the module name and press "open browserto see all available modulesto start pydoc in this modeyou generally first launch the search engine gui captured in figure - you can start this either by selecting the module docs item in python' start button menu on windows and earlieror by launching the pydoc py script in python' standard library directory with - command-line argumentit lives in lib on windowsbut you can use python' - flag to avoid typing script paths here tooc:\codec:\python \python - pydoc - :\codepy - - pydoc - explicit python path windows launcher version enter the name of module you're interested inand press the enter keypydoc will march down your module import search path (sys path)looking for the requested module and references to it once you've found promising entryselect it and click "go to selected pydoc will spawn web browser on your machine to display the report rendered in html format figure - shows the information pydoc displays for the built-in glob module notice the hyperlinks in the modules section of this page--you can click these to jump to the pydoc pages for related (importedmodules for larger pagespydoc also generates hyperlinks to sections within the page like the help function interfacethe gui interface works on user-defined modules as well as built-ins figure - shows the page generated for our docstrings py module file coded earlier make sure that the directory containing your module is on your module import search path--as mentionedpydoc must be able to import file to render its documentation this includes the current working directory--pydoc might not check the directory it was launched from (which is probably meaningless when started from the windows start button anyhow)so you may need to extend your pythonpath setting to get this to the documentation interlude