Re: Noob: finding my way around the docs...
- From: Matimus <mccredie@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:55:02 -0700 (PDT)
On Jun 19, 2:06 pm, kj <so...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm a Python noob, and haven't yet figured out my way around the
Python documentation.
For example, suppose I learn about some great module foo.bar.baz,
and when I run the python interpreter and type "import foo.bar.baz",
lo and behold, it is already installed on our system, which means
that (knowing that our system is pretty bare-bones as far as python
goes) most likely foo.bar.baz is part of the standard python
installation.
So, if I were an experienced Pythonista, how would I go about
finding the documentation for foo.bar.baz?
This situation happened most recently to me, if we replace foo.bar.baz
with xml.dom.ext. It was indeed installed on our system, but I
could find no mention of it in docs.python.org.
Somehow I have the feeling that there's some major stash of
documentation that I haven't learned about yet...
FWIW, I'm a Perlhead, and I'm very used (maybe too used) to the
fact that if the Perl module Foo::Bar::Baz is installed on our
system, all I need to do to read its full-blown documentation in
all its glory is to type "perldoc Foo::Bar::Baz" at the command
line. Is there anything like this in Python?
TIA!
kj
--
NOTE: In my address everything before the first period is backwards;
and the last period, and everything after it, should be discarded.
If you are in the interpreter and you type: help(foo.bar.baz) you get
the embeded documentation.
I usually go straight to the `global module index` http://docs.python.org/modindex.html
I don't seem to have a module named "xml.dom.ext", so I don't think it
is standard.
Matt
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