Alternative ways to browse the python api [closed]

Question

Is it just me, or the python standard library documentation is extremely difficult to browse through?

• http://docs.python.org/3.1/library/index.html
• http://docs.python.org/3.1/modindex.html

Java has its brilliant Javadocs, Ruby has its helpful Ruby-Docs, only in python I cannot find a good way to navigate through the standard library documentation.

There's the Epydoc project, which looks nice, but does anyone know if it is actually being used on the standard library, so we can all go through it? If not, what are the alternatives people are using to browse python documentation.

Answer 1

I usually use the built-in pydoc, if you are on windows it should be called Module Docs if you are on linux use pydoc -p 8000 and connect through browser.

Answer 2

pydoc from the command line, help() from the interactive interpreter prompt.