[Tutor] Is pydoc the right API docs?

[Kent Johnson]

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 5:06 AM, Nick
<reply_to_is_valid at nowhere.com.invalid> wrote:
> I'm not sure I'm using pydoc correctly.  I only seem to get abbreviated
> help rather than full documentation.  It happens often enough that I think
> I'm doing something wrong.

> I found the answer using google, but that won't work if I'm offline.  Am I
> using pydoc correctly?  Or is there a more complete language spec?

pydoc just shows the docstrings. It does not include the full text of
the documentation. For that see
http://python.org/doc/

You can download the docs for offline use, see the above link.

Kent