pydoc - the Python documentation tool pydoc3 <name> ... Show text documentation on something. <name> may be the name of a Python keyword, topic, function, module, or package, or a dotted reference to a class or function within a module or module in a package. If <name> contains a '/', it is used as the path to a Python source file to document. If name is 'keywords', 'topics', or 'modules', a listing of these things is displayed. pydoc3 -k <keyword> Search for a keyword in the synopsis lines of all available modules. pydoc3 -n <hostname> Start an HTTP server with the given hostname (default: localhost). pydoc3 -p <port> Start an HTTP server on the given port on the local machine. Port number 0 can be used to get an arbitrary unused port. pydoc3 -b Start an HTTP server on an arbitrary unused port and open a Web browser to interactively browse documentation. This option can be used in combination with -n and/or -p. pydoc3 -w <name> ... Write out the HTML documentation for a module to a file in the current directory. If <name> contains a '/', it is treated as a filename; if it names a directory, documentation is written for all the contents.

pydoc - the Python documentation tool pydoc3 <name> ... Show text documentation on something. <name> may be the name of a Python keyword, topic, function, module, or package, or a dotted reference to a class or function within a module or module in a package. If <name> contains a '/', it is used as the path to a Python source file to document. If name is 'keywords', 'topics', or 'modules', a listing of these things is displayed. pydoc3 -k <keyword> Search for a keyword in the synopsis lines of all available modules. pydoc3 -n <hostname> Start an HTTP server with the given hostname (default: localhost). pydoc3 -p <port> Start an HTTP server on the given port on the local machine. Port number 0 can be used to get an arbitrary unused port. pydoc3 -b Start an HTTP server on an arbitrary unused port and open a Web browser to interactively browse documentation. This option can be used in combination with -n and/or -p. pydoc3 -w <name> ... Write out the HTML documentation for a module to a file in the current directory. If <name> contains a '/', it is treated as a filename; if it names a directory, documentation is written for all the contents.