Re: why no pydoc python?

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Date	Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:39:26 -0800
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On Fri, 01 Feb 2013 13:07:46 +1100
Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> wrote:

> rh <richard_hubbe11@lavabit.com> writes:
> 
> > I installed python from tarball and I wonder if I did something
> > wrong. pydoc pydoc works fine but there's no pydoc python.
> 
> What would you expect ‘pydoc python’ to show? The word “python” is
> not a keyword, is not a built-in identifier, is not a standard
> library module.

The same as what's in the man page'd be fine.
> 
> > There is a man page for python. Maybe there is no python doc for
> > pydoc?
> 
> There is a man page for the command ‘python’ because it's a command
> that can be invoked from the operating system shell. Python's
> documentation (accessed with the ‘pydoc’ command) is not the place to
> document that.

pydoc can be invoked from the operating system shell.
Also with no python pydoc then there's no python doc when running
pydoc -p 2000
So the question remains, why not?

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Re: why no pydoc python? rh <richard_hubbe11@lavabit.com> - 2013-01-31 19:39 -0800

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