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Asked: 2026-05-11T20:52:51+00:00

Is there any way to search for a particular package/function using keywords in the

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Is there any way to search for a particular package/function using keywords in the Python console?

For example, I may want to search “pdf” for pdf related tasks.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The pydoc -k flag searches the documentation.

    pydoc -k <keyword>
    Search for a keyword in the synopsis lines of all available modules.

    From a terminal, run..

    $ pydoc -k pdf

    ..for example:

    $ pydoc -k pdf
PdfImagePlugin 
wx.lib.pdfwin 
PIL.PdfImagePlugin

    It doesn’t search the contents of the documentation, but it searches all module names – if that’s not enough, I’d suggest using Google or StackOverflow to search for “Python PDF module” or similar

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