The Help button on the Preferences windows does not do anything. Maybe I can fix it, but I don't know what it was supposed to do in the first place. For now it probably should be removed.

This falls under annoyance #11 from issue13504. I'll cross-reference it there.

Attached is a patch that removes the Help button from the Preferences window.

Maybe it would be nice to have the Help button open a text file describing every possible option, but while this doesn't happen it is better to remove this button.

Perhaps we should merely comment out the two blocks of text until we decide we don't ever want a help button. If the expanded doc in progress had a marked helpful doc on configure, the help button could open the doc to that section.

Guilherme, have you submitted a PSF Contributor License Agreement?
http://www.python.org/psf/contrib/contrib-form/
(Sorry if this a repeat question.)

Hi, Terry!

I already signed the Contributor License Agreement Form.

Attached is a new patch with the buttons commented out and a small comment explaining why I did that. I hope the patch is better now.

LGTM.

This patch LGTM as well.  I think it should be committed ASAP because the button clearly doesn't work as it is programmed now.

New changeset 3d343dfe6269 by Terry Jan Reedy in branch '2.7':
Issue #17721: Remove non-functional configuration dialog help button until we
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/3d343dfe6269

New changeset 6e4b94019eae by Terry Jan Reedy in branch '3.3':
Issue #17721: Remove non-functional configuration dialog help button until we
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/6e4b94019eae

New changeset be9843012124 by Terry Jan Reedy in branch 'default':
Issue #17721: Remove non-functional configuration dialog help button until we
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/be9843012124

#20403 is about making Help work and putting the button back.