[SciPy-user] loking for lookfor

[Laurent Perrinet]

Dear list,

hope this is not off-topic. I'm sometimes lost in the richness of  
scipy possibilities and I am looking for a function that could search  
in the docstrings for particular keywords... (i'm sure that as many  
other users, we're googling that). there is an equivalent in matlab  
called lookfor which searches in the whole path all functions  
containing the given keyword.

does a similar function exist for scipy? and more generally (i)python?

like a magic:
%lookfor convol*

would return all functions etc... containing "convol" in  its docstring

thanks,
Laurent


ps: only reference I found was a missing entry in a matlab/pylab  
comparison:
http://37mm.no/mpy/matlab-numpy.html

Laurent Perrinet
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