MacOS – Offline (Python) documentation? (for ActivePython Mac or similar)

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I'm a long-time user of ActivePython, and also own a couple of Komodo licenses.

I've recently moved to the Mac, and one thing that I'm missing a lot is the "offline" documentation (i.e., in Windows Help format) that was included with ActivePython.

Is there a Mac "equivalent" of that documentation? I'm not always online when banging away on some script (actually I've found that plane trips are great for some quick coding) so "googling it" doesn't work.

Best Answer

You can download the Python documentation directly from python.org, see Python Documentation for details.

You can also use pydoc in Terminal to access the documentation already stored on your Mac.