# Get the documentation string for an python object from shell
# we use itertools.starmap as an example
python -c 'import inspect; import itertools; print inspect.getdoc(itertools.starmap)'

# Get the documentation string for an object from python
# we use itertools.starmap as an example
print inspect.getdoc(itertools.starmap)

# In a interactive python shell
help(itertools.starmap)

# In a interactive IPython shell
itertools.starmap?