[Tutor] RE: Using IDLE on Mac OS X?

[Lee Cullens]

This is not a great way to start on this list, but I am having trouble 
with an annoyance that I have not been able to solve and have not found 
an answer to elsewhere.

(Dual 2.5 Mac G5; 10.3.8; Python 2.3; retired software engineer getting 
started with Python)

I don't like using Python via the Bash terminal and PythonIDE works 
well but as you know is somewhat lacking, and I'm not ready yet to 
shell out for something like WingIDE.  So I started using IDLE but have 
found an annoyance with it on (OS X) 10.3.8 - reportedly not a problem 
on 10.2.  In the Help menu, the About and IDLE Help work fine, but the 
Python Docs selection is DOA as is defining an alternate help source 
with the correct Python site URL.

Yes I know I can always click on a link in Safari to bring such up, but 
would like to use the help viewer from within IDLE.  Just getting 
started, I make a lot of trips to the Python Docs :~)   Does anyone on 
this list have any experience with the problem or know of any 
appropriate links?

Thanks,
Lee C