Alexander Belopolsky <belopolsky@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment: On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Ron Adam <report@bugs.python.org> wrote: ..

I noticed in your patch, the disclaimer only prints when pydoc can find a doc location (docloc is not None).

This is not a disclaimer, but an explanation of the relationship between pydoc pages and the reference manual.

So it may not get displayed at all depending on how python is installed.

docloc should not be None for standard library modules. This is a separate issue.

I also think having it on every page may be a bit overly cautious. (IMHO)

In text viewer you only see one page at a time. In HTML you may put it on the index or start page.

I'm also not sure it is correct to have that when viewing third party modules as the doc location in those cases will be broken anyway.

docloc is None for 3rd party modules (pydocs checks for site-packages component in path). The logic is not very robust, but that is a separate issue.

The obvious places to put it are: * top of the pydoc html module index. (first page displayed) That's fine.

* in the welcome message for interactive help() * help(help) * help(pydoc)

No, these places are almost never seen. Also, one should not think of this as a disclaimer, but as an explanation of why she is shown a link to a reference page when full documentation is already displayed.

It can still be defined in one location and then use "+ pydoc_disclaimer" in the desired locations.

Sure. Just don't call it "disclaimer". Maybe Doc.REFTEXT constant next to Doc.PYTHONDOCS? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10446> _______________________________________