Official Documentation¶

The official Python Language and Library documentation can be found here:

• Python 2.x
• Python 3.x

Read the Docs¶

Read the Docs is a popular community project that hosts documentationfor open source software. It holds documentation for many Python modules,both popular and exotic.

Read the Docs

pydoc¶

pydoc is a utility that is installed when you install Python.It allows you to quickly retrieve and search for documentation from yourshell. For example, if you needed a quick refresher on thetime module, pulling up documentation would be as simple as

$ pydoctime

The above command is essentially equivalent to opening the Python REPLand running

>>>help(time)