Coming to Python from PHP it was interesting to see that in the PHP world I'd get 80% of my knowledge from the PHP documentation and 20% elsewhere. In the Python world it's easily the other way around. It also doesn't help that the PHP documentation is more up to date so I am using the most current info, while for Python their own docs are so bad I rely on other docs but they all vary on what version of Python it depends on and whether it follows current best practice. The difference is night and day and one of the reason I ended up going back to PHP.
Yeah the PHP documentation is extremely pragmatic and seems designed to get you going quickly with useful examples.
The Python documentation seems to be suffering from some sort of weird snobbery. Very wordy as another comment mentioned. Examples are frequently lacking or inadequate. They seem like they're trying to compete with MSDN in "professionalism" although these days even the MSDN examples are better. There is an entire ecosystem of python tutorial websites around the web that would not exist if the documentation was as helpful as that of PHP.
Even Java puts it to shame and that is sad