[Pythonmac-SIG] Python Ref Docs in OSX help format

Charles Hartman charles.hartman at conncoll.edu
Mon Mar 6 20:25:48 CET 2006


But the Mac Help program has always been and still is a dog. I'd much  
rather have the HTML docs myself.

Charles



On Mar 6, 2006, at 11:23 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:

>
> On Monday, March 06, 2006, at 05:13PM, Samuel M. Smith  
> <smithsm at samuelsmith.org> wrote:
>
>> I asked this before but no one responded.
>> Wouldn't it be a good idea to include the Python Reference docs in
>> Mac Help format in the the
>> MacPython universal installer? or at least as another package
>
> The big question would be: why? The universal installer currently  
> includes
> the docs in HTML format, and whenever I republish the installer  
> IDLE will
> actually find those documents.
>
> If we'd include the documents in Help format I'd like to see a  
> patch for
> IDLE that will open that help book when the users selects 'Help/ 
> Python Docs'
> in IDLE.
>
> Ronald
>
>>
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