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The scientific and high performance computing distributions generally offer Python as prt of the standard install. Search the distrowatch.com site for examples.
Mind you, these are distributions that have a custom made install script that happens to include Python and some Python libraries. There is obviously nothing stopping you from writing a script of your own on top of a bare bones Linux installation.
The BSD ecosystem generally does not have Python upon installation.
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PYDOC(1) BSD General Commands Manual PYDOC(1)
NAME
pydoc -- the Python documentation tool
SYNOPSIS
pydoc name
pydoc -k keyword
pydoc -p port
pydoc -g
pydoc -w module ...
pydoc --help
DESCRIPTION
pydoc shows text documentation on something related to python(1). The name argument may be the name of a Python keyword, topic, function,
module, or package, or a dotted reference to a class or function within a module or module in a package. If name contains a '/', it is used
as the path to a Python source file to document. If name is 'keywords', 'topics', or 'modules', a listing of these things is displayed.
OPTIONS
-k keyword Search for a keyword in the synopsis lines of all available modules.
-p port Start an HTTP server on the given port on the local machine.
-g Pop up a graphical interface for finding and serving documentation.
-w module ... Write out the HTML documentation for a module to a file in the current directory. If module contains a '/', it is treated as
a filename; if it names a directory, documentation is written for all the contents.
--help Prints out a help message.
AUTHOR
Moshe Zadka, based on "pydoc --help"
SEE ALSO
python(1)
Dec 19, 2003