help

Syntax: help(topic, format)

Shows usage information.

This command can be used in the distributed processing mode, but it does not participate in distributed processing.

Arguments

topic [input]

Data type: string

Default value: “”

Name of command whose help is to be retrieved. Specify nothing to show general help.

format [input]

Data type: string

Default value: text

Output format. Can be text for textual output or rst for ReStructuredText output. The latter is more complex format.

See also

help, info, license, echo, print, waitreturn, hello, timing, savetiming, resettiming