[Tutor] new to linux and I cannot find some python things

[Brian van den Broek]

Hi all,

I'm a week or so into having switched from WinXP to linux (ubuntu 
breezy). There is a lot to learn about the differences in the OS'es 
and that's just fine.

But, a couple of things have been in my way with Python. Most notably, 
  I don't know how one browses the documentation. On Windows, I just 
fired up the .chm (I think cmh--at any rate, the compiled help file.)

I have installed the docs on the linux side and they can be found by 
python:

 >>> help()
<snip welcome msg>
help> NONE
 
------------------------------------------------------------------------

   2.3.10.7 The Null Object

   This object is returned by functions that don't explicitly return a

<truncate output>


I assume there is some linux facility for documentation browsing that 
beats importing modules and accessing docstrings. I'd work it out 
eventually, but a timesaving pointer would be appreciated.

Best to all,

Brian vdB