[Python-Dev] [isssue 2001] Pydoc enhancement patch questions

[Ron Adam]

On 07/25/2010 12:01 PM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Ron Adam<rrr at ronadam.com>  wrote: ..
>>> I'd be completely fine with dropping the "Search For" box from the
>>> GUI interface, but the persistent window listing the served port
>>> and providing "Open Browser" and "Quit Serving" buttons still seems
>>> quite useful even without the search box (When running "python -m
>>> pydoc -p 8080&", it took me a moment to figure out how to kill the
>>> server I had started).
>
> Why not simply have  "Quit Serving" next to the search button in the
> served pages?  The server can even serve a friendly page explaining how
> it can be restarted before quitting. ..
>> Another way to communicate to the server would be to add a link in
>> the browser to open a server status page.  For example my router has a
>> configure page where I can check it's status and do other things.
>> That might be something worth exploring at some later date.
>
> This would work as well, but for starters, I think "Search" and "Quit"
> buttons next to each other will be most familiar to the users of the
> current Tk-based control window.

Nick, what do you think about the "Quit" link in the browser along with 
improving the server startup message on the console window?

Ron