def view_docs(browser=None):
    if not browser:
        for arg in sys.argv:
            if arg.startswith('--browser='):
                browser = arg.split('=')[-1].strip()
    try:
        import openmdao.devtools.build_docs as build_docs
    except ImportError:
        idxpath = "file://"+os.path.join(os.path.dirname(openmdao.main.__file__),
                                         "docs", "index.html")
        wb = webbrowser.get(browser)
        wb.open(idxpath)
    else:
        build_docs.view_docs(browser)
A script (``openmdao docs``) points to this. It just pops up a browser to 
dataset/ETHPy150Open OpenMDAO/OpenMDAO-Framework/openmdao.util/src/openmdao/util/view_docs.py/view_docs