help regarding installing python documentation

[Peter Hansen]

N Sharmishta-in1769c wrote:
> Hi
> I have installed the python 2.4 version and downloaded the HTML 
> documentation also.
> But when I give the command help( ) in the IDLE command prompt and ' 
> while '  ,it says
>  
> */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./*
> *//* 
> I don't know how to set the variable PYTHONDOCS .kindly help .

Environment variables are handled by the operating system, so until we 
know what operating system you are on, we can't provide a complete answer...