python doc in command line

[Ben Finney]

Peng Yu <PengYu.UT at gmail.com> writes:

> Perl has a command line help perldoc. I'm wondering if python has a
> similar help command.

The interactive interpreter has a "help" command, and a corresponding
"help" function which can be passed an object to display its
docstrings recursively and nicely-formatted.

The same facility is available with the external 'pydoc' command.

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Ben Finney