I used several of the pydoc functions but did not get what I was
looking for.

import pydoc
import math

helpTxt = pydoc.getdoc(math)

# only returns the following:
This module is always available.  It provides access to the
mathematical functions defined by the C standard.

helpTxt = pydoc.doc(math)

# prints the documents that help does but helpTxt prints None
print helpTxt
None

Just as I was about to ask for more help I figured out what I wanted:

import pydoc
import math
helpTxt = pydoc.render_doc(math)
helpTxt = pydoc.plain(helpTxt)
print helpTxt

Ryan



On Feb 1, 8:46 pm, Chad Dombrova <[email protected]> wrote:
> hi ryan,
> the help command uses the pydoc module:  
> http://docs.python.org/library/pydoc.html
>
> -chad

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