Searchable python documentation

[Andrew Kuchling]

Tom Huckstep <tomhuckstep at bigfoot.spammenot.com> writes:
> Is there any searchable python documentation, that performs
> a bit like man, so I could do
> 
> $ pyman compile
> 
> and it would show me the documentation for the builtin
> function compile?

pydoc, added in Python 2.1, does exactly that.  Try 'pydoc --help' 
to see everything pydoc can do.

--amk