Assign help() to a variable

Question

I want to assign a help() page to a variable as a string; for example

a = help("class")
print a

Is this possible and how would I go about doing it?

Answer 1

import pydoc

a = pydoc.render_doc('class')
print a

Answer 2

You can retrive the documentation directly.

from pydoc_data import topics

a = topics.topics['class']
print a