classification
Title: help() broken, especially on Windows
Type: behavior Stage: test needed
Components: Library (Lib) Versions: Python 2.6
process
Status: closed Resolution: out of date
Dependencies: Superseder:
Assigned To: ping Nosy List: bryango, georg.brandl, ping
Priority: normal Keywords:

Created on 2005-09-01 06:37 by bryango, last changed 2009-04-05 17:30 by georg.brandl. This issue is now closed.

Messages (2)
msg26173 - (view) Author: Bryan G. Olson (bryango) Date: 2005-09-01 06:37
The for loop that pydoc.Helper's __init__ uses to find the 
location of Python docs doesn't work. It will reject the 
standard setting of
'http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/'. 
Also, the loop should probably break after setting
self.docdir.

On Windows, setting PYTHONDOCS to the installation's doc 
directory will not make it work, because the doc is now 
distributed as a single file, 'Python24.chm', so there
is no 
'lib' sub-directory.



msg85533 - (view) Author: Georg Brandl (georg.brandl) * (Python committer) Date: 2009-04-05 17:30
This is out of date now that Python includes the documentation for those
keywords.
History
Date User Action Args
2009-04-05 17:30:31georg.brandlsetstatus: open -> closed

nosy: + georg.brandl
messages: + msg85533

resolution: out of date
2009-02-16 00:27:43ajaksu2setstage: test needed
type: behavior
versions: + Python 2.6
2005-09-01 06:37:20bryangocreate