On Wednesday, May 23, 2007, at 12:40PM, <skip at pobox.com> wrote: > > Nick> If you type "pydoc re" at the moment then it says in it > > Nick> MODULE DOCS > Nick> http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-re.html > > Nick> which is pretty much useless to me when ssh-ed in to a linux box > Nick> half way around the world... > >I get quite a bit of information about re (I've never known /F to be a >documentation slouch). Only one bit of that information is a reference to >the page in the library reference manual. And if I happen to be ssh'd into >a machine halfway round the world through a Gnome terminal I can right mouse >over that URL and pop the page up in my default local browser. If you set >the PYTHONDOCS environment variable you can point it to a local (or at least >different) copy of the libref manual. A flag could be added to pydoc to >show that content instead, however being html it probably would be difficult >to read unless pumped through lynx -dump or something similar. pydoc can already do this for the language reference (try 'pydoc import' on a system with a local install of the python documentation). Ronald > >Skip >_______________________________________________ >Python-Dev mailing list >Python-Dev at python.org >http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev >Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/ronaldoussoren%40mac.com > >
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