Help in Python is always available right in the interpreter. If you want to know how an object works, all you have to do is call help(<object>)! Also useful are dir(), which shows you all the object's methods, and <object>.doc, which shows you its documentation string:
>>> help(5) Help on int object: (etc etc) >>> dir(5) ['__abs__', '__add__', ...] >>> abs.__doc__ 'abs(number) -> number Return the absolute value of the argument.'