2.10 Interactive Help

In addition to this Users’ Guide, PyXPlot also has a help command, which provides a hierarchical source of information. Typing ‘help’ alone gives a brief introduction to the help system, as well as a list of topics on which help is available. To display help on any given topic, type ‘help’ followed by the name of the topic. For example:

help commands

provides information on PyXPlot’s commands. Some topics have subtopics, which are listed at the end of each page. To view them, add further words to the end of your help request – an example might be:

help commands help

which would display help on the help command itself.