iPython documentation output is incorrectly formatted

Question

This is a strange issue with ipython that I'm experiencing in my new machine. Whenever I try to print documentation, it comes as such:

Rather than a neatly formatted output. Any idea on how to fix it?

Answer 1

Try print ing it

print plt.scatter.__doc__

It's simply returning the underlying string representation, so if you want it to format, print should do it.