+1 with Martin. There is more to online help than the HTML stuff. Cheers, -g On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 11:26:45PM +0200, Martin v. Loewis wrote: > After installing the current Python CVS, I tried to do > > >>> from onlinehelp import help > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? > File "/usr/local/lib/python2.0/onlinehelp.py", line 323, in ? > help=Help(sys.stdout,24) > File "/usr/local/lib/python2.0/onlinehelp.py", line 216, in __init__ > raise EnvironmentError, error > EnvironmentError: Cannot find documentation directory /usr/local/bin/doc. > Set the PYTHONDOCS environment variable to point to a "doc" directory. > It should have a subdirectory "Lib" with a file named "index.html". > > I was mainly interested in seeing the doc string retriever in real > life. To do so, I'm in the process of obtaining a set of html files > (hopefully typing make in the Doc directory will give me those). > > Still, I think that module should work without HTML help installed, > and only fail if somebody tries to access the documentation. Or, there > should be a function doc() in addition to help() for retrieving and > printing doc strings. > > I'd actually prefer the second option: > > >>> doc(xml) > Core XML support for Python. > > This package contains three sub-packages: > > dom -- The W3C Document Object Model. This supports DOM Level 1 + > Namespaces. > > parser -- Python wrappers for XML parsers (currently only supports Expat). > > sax -- The Simple API for XML, developed by XML-Dev, led by David > Megginson and ported to Python by Lars Marius Garshol. This > supports the SAX 2 API. > > should work even without any documentation installed. In any case, I > think this (or the help function) should be builtin. > > Regards, > Martin > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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