[ python-Bugs-1025392 ] HTML Documentation for 2.4a3 not found

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Bugs item #1025392, was opened at 2004-09-10 05:41
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Category: Documentation
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Colin J. Williams (cjwhrh)
Assigned to: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Summary: HTML Documentation for 2.4a3 not found

Initial Comment:
Idle looks for the html docs

In the source package there are lots of .tex files,
must these
be converted to HTML, if so how?

Using Windows XP

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Comment By: George Yoshida (quiver)
Date: 2004-09-10 17:01

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Martin:
> Why do you say IDLE looks for the html docs? 

Start up an idle(or an interpreter), type help(), and type 'and'.
Then you can understand what Colin is trying to say.

  >>> help()
  ...(snip)
  help> and

If a PYTHONDOCS environ variable is given to the directory of 
html files, the interpreter parses them and show the 
document of 'and'.

Otherwise, you get the message:

Sorry, topic and keyword documentation is not available 
because the Python
HTML documentation files could not be found.  If you have 
installed them,
please set the environment variable PYTHONDOCS to indicate 
their location.

You can solve this problem by downloading html docs for 
2.3.* from 
http://www.python.org/doc/current/download.html, but you 
can't for 2.4*.

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Comment By: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger)
Date: 2004-09-10 16:10

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Martin, the IDLE help menu has four entries:
1) About IDLE -- brings up a Tk window
2) IDLE Help -- brings up another Tk window
3) Python Docs F1 -- browses http://www.python.org/doc/current/
4) Chm -- calls up the chm file

Colin, pressing F1 should take you to on-line html docs. 
Normally windows users access the CHM option when they want
to browse documentation locally.  I've never been able to
convert TeX files to HTML on Windows.  Fortunately, there is
almost no need.

If this answers your question. please close the bug.

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Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2004-09-10 15:37

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Why do you say IDLE looks for the html docs? On Windows, it
doesn't - it looks for the chm file instead.



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