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keyword and topic help broken in Pythonwin IDE #43364
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Using ActivePython 2.4.3 on Windows XP While in the Pythonwin IDE, if I seek keyword help by
I get: Sorry, topic and keyword documentation is not available My PYTHONDOCS variable is set to: c:\python24\Doc\Python-Docs-2.4.2\ref which appears to be correct (ie the help html files are Searching this group, I found someone else complaining See also |
Logged In: YES Since you are using the Pythonwin IDE, which was written and |
Logged In: YES help('topic') or help('keyword') doesn't work in IDLE or |
Logged In: YES Closing as 3rd party. |
Logged In: YES Sorry, if I was unclear. IDLE is not third party, is it? So I'm saying that on Windows XP, using the install from Thanks, rick |
Logged In: YES Okay, reopening. |
Logged In: YES From what I understand, HTML help hasn't shipped with Python If you've got html help files installed, and it's still not |
Logged In: YES The problem is on your side. PYTHONDOCS=c:\python24\Doc\Python-Docs-2.4.2 and not: PYTHONDOCS=c:\python24\Doc\Python-Docs-2.4.2\ref |
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The two tiny urls, esp. the second one illuminate just where |
Logged In: YES bscrivener, please run hh -decompile c:\python24\doc\html c:\python24\Doc\python24.chm and report whether that fixes the problem. |
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Fixed! Thank you. I'll share with comp.lang.python next time Thank you, loewis! |
Is there any reason this is not part of the windows installer? So, that Thoughts? |
The reason this is not part of the Windows installer is twofold: Contributions are welcome, although I would prefer a way to open |
Py3.0a5 installed in C;/Program Files/ Start/Python30/Python Manuals, using Python30.chm, works great. Thank Opinion: After 2 years, I think the priority of this issue should be The instruction ''' With that done, here are two possible interpretations of 'run... in..."
I suspect that very few of additions are needed by help() for topics and Suggestion 1a (permanent): When installing on Windows, include in /Doc After closing and restarting Python, I still got the same error message. Suggeston 2a (permanent): help should just look in the default location Suggestion 2b (interim): give details on how to set an e.v. Python is XP procedure: To set for all users, switch to admin account. Open However, after I did this, I restarted Python, and listed |
Counter-opinion: contributions are welcome. Raising the priority does
Without checking: it's most likely that the actual HTML file names Unassigning myself, as I will have no time to work on this in the |
Would adding a .bat file to run "hh -decompile" be acceptable? |
I don't quite understand the proposed solution: Would you merely |
Something changed in the past year so that keyword and topic help work >>> help('while')
The ``while`` statement...
...
>>> help('ASSERTION')
The ``assert`` statement...
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help> while
The ``while`` statement
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help> ASSERTION
The ``assert`` statement |
Very good :) |
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