I can't seem to pydoc raw_input in the terminal(Windows)

Question

I am a newbie in programming and I am using Windows and Python2.7.

I tried to run python -m pydoc raw_input in the terminal, but it says:

'more' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

What am i doing wrong?

[`more`](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_(command)) is the UNIX/Linux default "pager" command. Your python seems to think you are on a machine with the aforementioned command installed. No idea how to fix it, though. — SIGSTACKFAULT, Jan 31 '19 at 14:56
Try `python -c "help(raw_input)"`; [edit] your question with the results. — SIGSTACKFAULT, Jan 31 '19 at 15:00
To be honest, that's what I expected to happen. It's *more-or-less* the same thing. Oh well, had to try. — SIGSTACKFAULT, Jan 31 '19 at 15:25
Try just `more` on it's own to see if it's installed. If it's installed it should output something like `more: bad usage`. If not, it should output the same error as before. — SIGSTACKFAULT, Jan 31 '19 at 15:30

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 03 '19 at 07:28

It should work:

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.17134.523]
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c:\srv> python -m pydoc raw_input
Help on built-in function raw_input in module __builtin__:

raw_input(...)
    raw_input([prompt]) -> string

    Read a string from standard input.  The trailing newline is stripped.
    If the user hits EOF (Unix: Ctl-D, Windows: Ctl-Z+Return), raise EOFError.
    On Unix, GNU readline is used if enabled.  The prompt string, if given,
    is printed without a trailing newline before reading.

more.com lives in c:\windows\system32\more.com, so make sure your path contains the system32 directory..

I can't seem to pydoc raw_input in the terminal(Windows)

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