part igetting started with python getting gui help idle makes obtaining the help you need easy look at the help menu and you see three entries for obtaining helpabout idleprovides you with the latest information about idle idle helpshows you text file containing information about working with the idle ide for examplethis is where you find list of the idle commands python docscontains information required to work with python commands and other elements choose helpabout idle to see the about idle dialog box shown in figure - near the middle of the dialog boxyou see urls for obtaining additional help each of the buttons displays text file containing useful informationespecially in the readme and news files click close to exit this dialog box figure - the about idle dialog box contains useful infor mation that you might not see otherwise precisely what you see when you choose helppython docs depends on the platform you use figure - shows the windows version of the dialog box the python docs file contains information about how to work with and use python to create applications it even has tutorial section in which you can find additional helpful tips after working your way through this book