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If I try to type for example factor? in sage console It yields very detailed output with documentation based on dosctrings. But if I try to find factor in html\pdf docs (offline and online) there is no such search results.

So two questions:

• How to get that complete docsrting help from outside sage console?
• Why they are different?

Signature: factor(n, proof=None, int_=False, algorithm='pari', verbose=0, **kwds)

Docstring: Returns the factorization of "n". The result depends on the type of "n".

If "n" is an integer, returns the factorization as an object of type "Factorization".

If n is not an integer, "n.factor(proof=proof, **kwds)" gets
called. See "n.factor??" for more documentation in this case.

Warning: This means that applying "factor" to an integer result of a symbolic computation will not factor the integer, because it is considered as an element of a larger symbolic ring.EXAMPLES:

    sage: f(n)=n^2
    sage: is_prime(f(3))
    False
    sage: factor(f(3))
    9 ...

If I try to type for example factor? in sage console It yields very detailed output with documentation based on dosctrings. But if I try to find factor in html\pdf docs (offline and online) there is no such search results.

So two questions:

• How to get that complete docsrting help from outside sage console?
• Why they are different?

Signature: factor(n, proof=None, int_=False, algorithm='pari', verbose=0, **kwds)

Docstring: Returns the factorization of "n". The result depends on the type of "n".

If "n" is an integer, returns the factorization as an object of type "Factorization".

If n is not an integer, "n.factor(proof=proof, **kwds)" gets
called. See "n.factor??" for more documentation in this case.

Warning: This means that applying "factor" to an integer result of a symbolic computation will not factor the integer, because it is considered as an element of a larger symbolic ring.EXAMPLES:

    sage: f(n)=n^2
    sage: is_prime(f(3))
    False
    sage: factor(f(3))
    9 ...