I think the online documentation for Python stdlib is quite good. What I don't understand is why more of it is not available in help() from Python itself. For a

I think the online documentation for Python stdlib is quite good. What I don't understand is why more of it is not available in help() from Python itself. For all the docstring features in Python, the stdlib somehow just has second rate documentation in module and function docstrings! Compare with numpy and scipy, where the docstrings are comprehensive (there's a correspondance between online and embedded docs.)