Help in IDLE should open the chm file

[gregorlingl]

BPO	3941
Nosy	@loewis, @kbkaiser

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title = 'Help in IDLE should open the chm file'
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[gregorlingl]

From IDLE either pressing F1 or choosing the menu Help-Python Docs
should open a Help-Window with the docs of the current version. (This
works well for instance in Python 2.5.2) The docs file normally resides
on the local computer in the Doc directory (at least under Windows)

With 2.6rc2 under Windows pressing F1 only opens a Browser with the url
http://www.python.org/doc/current/ which leads to the 2.5.2 documentation.

It should be linked to the python26.chm file in the Doc directory

Regards,
Gregor

[loewis]

Notice that the chm file is available on Windows only. So in general,
opening the online documentation might be the right thing to do.

[loewis]

Kurt, even if using online documentation is necessary, I think the URL
is not quite right - it should rather be a version-dependent URL, IMO.

[gregorlingl]

I just found out, that this doesn't work correctly, because the
Windows-helpfile in Python26rc2 is strangely named Python26c2.chm . It
works correctly however if one renames this file to Python26.chm (as
this is what the code in EditorWindow.py expects).

So this will (almost certainly) be no problem in the final release.

Regards, Gregor