How to search help using python console

Question

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.

Answer 1

pip is an excellent resource. If pip is installed (if you don't have it, instructions are here), then using the Windows command shell you can do the following:

pip search pdf

It returns a plethora of options.

C:\Python27\Scripts>pip search pdf
mwlib.rl                  - generate pdfs from mediawiki markup
slc.publications          - A content type to store and parse pdf publications
PyPDFLite                 - Simple PDF Writer.
pdfminer                  - PDF parser and analyzer
zopyx.convert             - A Python interface to XSL-FO libraries (Conversion
                            HTML to PDF, RTF, DOCX, WML and ODT)
WeasyPrint                - WeasyPrint converts web documents to PDF.
zopyx.convert2            - A Python interface for the conversion of HTML to
                            PDF, RTF, DOCX, WML and ODT) - belongs to
                            zopyx.smartprintng.core
collective.pdfpeek        - A Plone 4 product that generates image thumbnail
                            previews of PDF files stored on ATFile based
                            objects.
pisa                      - PDF generator using HTML and CSS

etc.