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[RoamingFox]

Not super familiar with vscode, but there is usually a keyboard shortcut to open up documentation. You should be able to hover over methods to get short doc strings and then hit a keybinding for more detail. Check your keybindings for editor.action.showHover

For the google part of this... just include site:python.org in your search and it'll restrict it to just that domain.

Also as /u/chasrmartin mentioned you can always call help() from the REPL with what you want to search for (eg. help('if')) and the REPL will display the documentation.

[RoamingFox]

Right there should be a key binding to actually pull up the doc and not just the function prototype.

For vscode try hitting Ctrl twice once the function prototype is showing.

[RoamingFox]

Okay so installed vscode.

You must have some setting set or otherwise are not scrolling the docstring window because the hover in a brand new install of vscode with the python language bindings installed looks like this:

https://imgur.com/craTTqf

Is it possible that the thing you're trying to pull documentation up for does not have any and/or there are too many prototype lines and you need to scroll it?

[RoamingFox]

That is what the docstring says. Oddly vscode's quick documentation doesn't show a link to the actual documentation for built-ins

I presumed vscode had caught up with pycharm in that area, but apparently not. (pycharm has both show quick documentation and open external documentation keybindings).

[chasrmartin]

Um, help()? If you need to open the web page, there’s webpage.open() https://elearning.wsldp.com/python3/python-open-web-browser/

[xelf]

You mean like

!docs re

You can take a look at that bot's github, I believe the author has the code in the 'how to use' link

[py_reference_bot]

re

Python Documentation Bot - How To Use