Sudheer,
For the documentation you are looking for
print ax1.xcorr.__doc__
(Paul tried to give you the IPython method of getting that documentation which
is by typing a ? (or ??) after the desired object.)
In the documentation (at the link you gave
I've asked this question on GIS stack exchange site, but thought it
would be good to post here too. The SE question is here:
http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/50394/importing-matplotlib-basemap-and-shapely
I have a python script that uses matplotlib's basemap and another part
that uses