If you need to get quick information about any built-in stuff
in Python, then you can use the help
functionality. This is useful to get quick information about what
we are trying to use. For example, text is referred to as a
string of characters in Python and strings are
represented by instances of the
str class (We will explore these
terminologies in later chapters. Let us concentrate on the
help functionality for now). In the
interpreter prompt, run the command help(str)
and it should show up lot of terse information about the
str class. Press q to exit
from the help.
You can always refer to the official documentation for lots
of useful information. In Windows, click on -> ->
->
to view the
full documentation. On Linux/BSD systems, the location of the
documentation is specific to the type of the system. For example,
on some systems, you will find the docs at
/usr/share/doc/python-docs-2.4/html/. You can find out
this information using the package management software of your
system.