Understanding Python Documentation

[Shalabh Chaturvedi]

Josh Cronemeyer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have very little experience programming in python but considerable 
> experience with java.  One thing that is frustrating me is the differences in 
> the documentation style.  Javadocs, at the top level are just a list of 
> packages.  Drilling down on a package reveals a list of classes in that 
> package, and drilling down on a class reveals a list of methods for that 
> class.  Is there something similar for python?  
> 
> The closest thing I have found to this for python is 
> http://www.python.org/doc/2.4.2/modindex.html  which really isn't the same 
> thing at all.
> 
> wxpython has their documentation like this http://www.wxpython.org/docs/api/  
> is there something like this for the rest of python? 

Here is the Python 2.3 standard lib docs generated using epydoc:

http://epydoc.sourceforge.net/stdlib/

In look and feel it's more like javadoc. However always check the 
standard library documentation for usage and examples that might not be 
in this.

Cheers,
Shalabh