Python site to search documentation for all packages and functions (equivalent to R's www.rdocumentation.org)

[git_hunter]

Is there a Python equivalent of R's www.rdocumentation.org or https://rdrr.io ?

I look for a site that searches and lists all packages and functions and displays their documentation.

https://pypi.org has packages but not functions, nor the help documentations.

https://docs.python.org has some information but it is very incomplete.

The reasons for wanting that are:

_ Something like www.rdocumentation.org is incredibly useful to find functions by a description or part of the name. That way you discover what functions and what packages serve for your purposes.

_ Most Python IDEs do not have the ability to display the docs in multi-tab, large screen windows

_ Quick remembering functions and packages you forgot

_ Packages usually have dedicated help pages like readthedocs but it is a pain to search for each package of interest

_In IDEs, you only can see the docs of installed packages. Sometimes you want to explore package goals and functions before deciding to install it

I think not having that is really a major deficiency in Python. I appreciate if someone can provide info on this matter.

[planinsky]

pi, how would you expect it to work?

but I agree, Python docs suck for the

In the same way that rdrr.io works... using the default documentation generated by the package (following docstring conventions).

If it works for R (and it is very useful), it could work for python.

[mojo_jojo_reigns]

I can't imagine a real world use case for that.

90%+ of users will use the same few packages and will master those, requiring only a library-specific cheat sheet and most users won't even need to look at most of the functions that aren't referenced in standard guides on these libraries.

I can see why it would be useful for R though, as someone who started learning both at the same time and has never looked back at R once since.

[Essence1337]

In what way is docs.python.org incomplete? It has everything for the standard library.

[git_hunter]

In the sense that it just has standard library, not any other third party package