[Tutor] Need *Python Help* help

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Yeah, I actually use IDLE on Mac OS X. OS X/Unix is still a somewhat
unfamiliar beast to me, so I can only go by whatever the messages I receive
(in this case from IDLE itself) say. I think that part of the issue I am
dealing with here is my having installed Python via fink, because fink
installs things in its own directory (usually a perfectly okay state of
affairs; fink is really a godsend). However, in this case IDLE does not know
where to look for the docs.

But, no biggie. I am using the browser to get to the files, now. I guess I
just want to know how to set the /environment variable/ because I don't know
how, and I don't like not knowing how to do something. Especially when it
appears to be something simple (like setting up tcsh.rc was).

Thanks again for your help. (-:


Sincerely,
James Pomeroy


> -----Original Message-----
> From: tutor-admin@python.org [mailto:tutor-admin@python.org]On Behalf Of
> dman
> Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 7:51 AM
> To: Python Tutor
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] Need *Python Help* help
>
>
> *Python* doesn't do anything with help files.  *IDLE* (or Pythonwin or
> whatever IDE you choose) might.
>
>
> Setting environment variables is an OS thing, not a python thing.  Are
> you using Win9x/ME?
>
>
> Yeah, I just use my web browser to view them.  (I failed to mention,
> too, that I don't use windows and I use 'gvim' as my editor.  The
> "help" menu there talks about gvim, not python or C or java :-))
>
> -D