in figure - ' windowpydoc will produce an index page containing hyperlink to every module you can possibly import on your computer this includes python standard library modulesmodules of installed third-party extensionsuser-defined modules on your import search pathand even statically or dynamically linked-in -coded modules such information is hard to come by otherwise without writing code that inspects all module sources on python you'll want to do this immediately after the gui opensas it may not fully work after searches also note that in pydoc' all-browser - interface in and lateryou get the same index functionality on its top-level start page of figure - beyond docstringssphinx if you're looking for way to document your python system in more sophisticated wayyou may wish to check out sphinx (currently at used by the standard python documentation described in the next sectionand many other projects it uses simple restructuredtext as its markup languageand inherits much from the docutils suite of restructuredtext parsing and translating tools among other thingssphinx supports variety of output formats (html including windows html helplatex for printable pdf versionsmanual pagesand plain text)extensive and automatic cross-referenceshierarchical structure with automatic links to relativesautomatic indexesautomatic code highlighting using pygments (itself notable python tool)and more this is probably overkill for smaller programs where docstrings and pydoc may sufficebut can yield professional-grade documentation for large projects see the web for more details on sphinx and its related tools the standard manual set for the complete and most up-to-date description of the language and its toolsetpython' standard manuals stand ready to serve python' manuals ship in html and other formatsand they are installed with the python system on windows--they are available in your start button' menu for python on windows and earlierand they can also be opened from the help menu within idle you can also fetch the manual set separately from that site (follow the documentation linkon windowsthe manuals are compiled help file to support searchesand the online versions at the python website include web-based search page when openedthe windows format of the manuals displays root page like that in figure - showing the local copy on windows the two most important entries here are most likely the library reference (which documents built-in typesfunctionsexceptionsand standard library modulesand the language reference (which provides python documentation sources