[ python-Bugs-1278102 ] help(<keyword>) broken, especially on Windows

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Bugs item #1278102, was opened at 2005-08-31 23:37
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Category: Python Library
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Bryan G. Olson (bryango)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: help(<keyword>) broken, especially on Windows

Initial Comment:
The for loop that pydoc.Helper's __init__ uses to find the 
location of Python docs doesn't work. It will reject the 
standard setting of
'http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/'. 
Also, the loop should probably break after setting
self.docdir.

On Windows, setting PYTHONDOCS to the installation's doc 
directory will not make it work, because the doc is now 
distributed as a single file, 'Python24.chm', so there
is no 
'lib' sub-directory.





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