Call main routine in pydoc module (pydoc.cli).

Tools/scripts/pydoc

 #!/usr/bin/env python
 
-# -------------------------------------------------- command-line interface
-
-import sys, os, pydoc
-from string import lower
-
-if __name__ == '__main__':
-    import getopt
-    class BadUsage: pass
-
-    try:
-        opts, args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], 'k:p:w')
-        writing = 0
-
-        for opt, val in opts:
-            if opt == '-k':
-                pydoc.apropos(lower(val))
-                break
-            if opt == '-p':
-                try:
-                    port = int(val)
-                except ValueError:
-                    raise BadUsage
-                def ready(port=port):
-                    print 'server ready at http://127.0.0.1:%d/' % port
-                pydoc.serve(('127.0.0.1', port), ready)
-                break
-            if opt == '-w':
-                if not args: raise BadUsage
-                writing = 1
-        else:
-            if args:
-                for arg in args:
-                    try:
-                        if os.path.isfile(arg):
-                            arg = pydoc.importfile(arg)
-                        if writing:
-                            if os.path.isdir(arg): pydoc.writedocs(arg)
-                            else: pydoc.writedoc(arg)
-                        else: pydoc.man(arg)
-                    except pydoc.DocImportError, value:
-                        print 'problem in %s - %s' % (
-                            value.filename, value.args)
-            else:
-                if sys.platform in ['mac', 'win', 'win32', 'nt']:
-                    # GUI platforms with threading
-                    import threading
-                    ready = threading.Event()
-                    address = ('127.0.0.1', 12346)
-                    threading.Thread(
-                        target=pydoc.serve, args=(address, ready.set)).start()
-                    ready.wait()
-                    import webbrowser
-                    webbrowser.open('http://127.0.0.1:12346/')
-                else:
-                    raise BadUsage
-
-    except (getopt.error, BadUsage):
-        print """%s <name> ...
-    Show documentation on something.
-    <name> may be the name of a Python function, module, or package,
-    or a dotted reference to a class or function within a module or
-    module in a package, or the filename of a Python module to import.
-
-%s -k <keyword>
-    Search for a keyword in the synopsis lines of all modules.
-
-%s -p <port>
-    Start an HTTP server on the given port on the local machine.
-
-%s -w <module> ...
-    Write out the HTML documentation for a module to a file.
-
-%s -w <moduledir>
-    Write out the HTML documentation for all modules in the tree
-    under a given directory to files in the current directory.
-""" % ((sys.argv[0],) * 5)
+import pydoc
+pydoc.cli()