What does the Pydoc module do?

Question

New to programming and python altogether. In the book I'm learning from, the author suggested I find out the purpose of Pydoc. I did a google search on it, and found a match (from Gnome Terminal) but it didn't make much sense to me. Anyone mind simplifying a bit?

Accepted Answer

Pydoc is a help / documentation module for Python.

Use this on your Windows terminal to understand what a function in python does :

```
python -m pydoc <function>
```

eg.

```
python -m pydoc raw_input
```

If the documentation for a particular function is very long, use 'q' to get out of it.

e.g. in case of

```
python -m pydoc Tkinter
```

What does the Pydoc module do?

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