From the python man page: "Documentation for installed Python modules and packages can be viewed by running the pydoc program." pydoc is part of the standard P

From the python man page: "Documentation for installed Python modules and packages can be viewed by running the pydoc program." pydoc is part of the standard Python installation (though it might be broken out into a separate package on some Linux distros) and equivalent to the man pages for Perl and Tcl. Java, on the other hand, typically only has the HTML javadocs. And once you get outside libc, documentation for C/C++ libraries is all over the place in formatting and accessibility with standard tools.