Documentation — The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python (original) (raw)
Official Documentation¶
The official Python Language and Library documentation can be found here:
Read the Docs¶
Read the Docs is a popular community project that hosts documentation for open source software. It holds documentation for many Python modules, both popular and exotic.
pydoc¶
pydoc is a utility that is installed when you install Python. It allows you to quickly retrieve and search for documentation from your shell. For example, if you needed a quick refresher on thetime module, pulling up documentation would be as simple as:
The above command is essentially equivalent to opening the Python REPL and running: