Getting Help

You can use Python’s help infrastructure to get more information on any of ChemApp for Python’s components. You can do this in the Windows command prompt or Linux console, outside the Python interpreter by typing the following:

pydoc chemapp

This will yield the following result:

Help on package chemapp:

NAME
    chemapp - ChemApp for Python.

DESCRIPTION
    The purpose of this package is to make ChemApp thermochemical
    calculations available through a set of easy-to-use Python
    modules and classes. ChemApp is developed by GTT Technologies.
    For more information, please refer to the following web page:
    http://www.gtt-technologies.de/chemapp

    Python version:  3.12.7
    ChemApp version: 831.2.0

PACKAGE CONTENTS
 basic
 core
 friendly

DATA
    __copyright__ = 'Copyright 2021-2023, GTT Technologies GmbH'
    __email__ = 'info@gtt-technologies.de'
    __maintainer__ = 'GTT Technologies'
    __status__ = 'Production'

VERSION
    8.3.1

AUTHOR
    GTT Technologies

To exit the documentation viewer, press Shift+q in Windows, and q in Linux. Here are a few more examples of how you can use pydoc to get help.

# get help about the 'core' module
pydoc chemapp.core

# get help about the 'basic' module
pydoc chemapp.basic

# get help about the 'friendly' module
pydoc chemapp.friendly

# help about the 'tqce' function.
pydoc chemapp.basic.tqce

All the help information that you are able to access in this way is also available in the pdf documentation that is included with the ChemApp for Python distribution package.