python “help” function: printing docstrings

Question

Is there an option to print the output of help(\'myfun\'). The behaviour I\'m seeing is that output is printed to std.out and the script waits for user input (i.e. type \'q\

Answer 1

>>> x = 2
>>> x.__doc__
'int(x[, base]) -> integer\n\nConvert a string or number to an integer, if possi
ble.  A floating point\nargument will be truncated towards zero (this does not i
nclude a string\nrepresentation of a floating point number!)  When converting a
string, use\nthe optional base.  It is an error to supply a base when converting
 a\nnon-string. If the argument is outside the integer range a long object\nwill
 be returned instead.'

Is that what you needed?

edit - you can print(x.__doc__) and concerning the function signature, you can build it using the inspect module.

>>> inspect.formatargspec(inspect.getargspec(os.path.join))
'((a,), p, None, None)'
>>> help(os.path.join)
Help on function join in module ntpath:

join(a, *p)
    Join two or more pathname components, inserting "\" as needed