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 server> 5.0K views15:00
