Published: 10 November 2020, 18:00
The script pydoc can be used to see documentationand docstrings from the console:
$ pydoc3 functools.reduce | cat
Help on built-in function reduce in functools:
functools.reduce = reduce(...)
reduce(function, sequence[, initial]) -> value
Apply a function of two arguments cumulatively to the items of a sequence,
...
Also, you can specify a port with -p
flag, and pydoc
will serve the HTML documentation browser on the given port:
$ pydoc3 -p 1234
Server ready at http://localhost:1234/
Server commands: [b]rowser, [q]uit
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