[ python-Bugs-1489051 ] keyword and topic help broken in Pythonwin IDE

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Bugs item #1489051, was opened at 2006-05-15 20:46
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Category: Windows
Group: 3rd Party
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: BartlebyScrivener (bscrivener)
Assigned to: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Summary: keyword and topic help broken in Pythonwin IDE

Initial Comment:
Using ActivePython 2.4.3 on Windows XP

While in the Pythonwin IDE, if I seek keyword help by
issuing the following command:

>>>help ('while')

I get:

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.

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
installed
there).

Searching this group, I found someone else complaining
about the same behavior with no clear resolution.

http://tinyurl.com/pblev

See also

http://tinyurl.com/mbokp

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Comment By: Žiga Seilnacht (zseil)
Date: 2006-05-30 02:42

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The problem is on your side.
You should set the PYTHONDOCS environment variable
to the root directory of the html documentation, eg.:

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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Comment By: Josiah Carlson (josiahcarlson)
Date: 2006-05-30 00:30

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>From what I understand, HTML help hasn't shipped with Python
on Windows for a few releases (likely around the time that
.chm help files started shipping).

If you've got html help files installed, and it's still not
picking them up, could you dig deeper into why this is the case.

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Comment By: Georg Brandl (gbrandl)
Date: 2006-05-30 00:24

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Okay, reopening.

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Comment By: BartlebyScrivener (bscrivener)
Date: 2006-05-30 00:19

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Sorry, if I was unclear. IDLE is not third party, is it?

So I'm saying that on Windows XP, using the install from
Python.org help() is BROKEN. Search in the Python Google
group and you'll find many other references to same. Pydoc
no longer  provides help on topic or keywords. It will do
modules. In short it's PYDOC that is broken, not Pythonwin IDE.

Thanks,

rick

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Comment By: Georg Brandl (gbrandl)
Date: 2006-05-29 23:00

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Closing as 3rd party.

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Comment By: BartlebyScrivener (bscrivener)
Date: 2006-05-21 02:51

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help('topic') or help('keyword') doesn't work in IDLE or
Pythonwin IDE



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Comment By: Josiah Carlson (josiahcarlson)
Date: 2006-05-20 09:00

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Since you are using the Pythonwin IDE, which was written and
is supported by Mark Hammond via the pywin32 project,
perhaps you should be visiting his project page instead:
http://sf.net/projects/pywin32

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