Generating API documentation as a textfile

[MonkeeSage]

On Dec 3, 8:58 am, Samuel <newsgro... at debain.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 06:45:45 -0800, Giampaolo Rodola' wrote:
> > dir.__doc__
>
> This contains only the docstring one object (module, class,
> function, ...). I was thinking more of the complete API documentation
> that can be found in a file, and formatted in a readable way.
>
> -Samuel

Sounds like you want pydoc.

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-pydoc.html

Regards,
Jordan