[Tutor] setting

[Brian van den Broek]

Shi Mu said unto the world upon 2005-10-19 07:22:
> I have installed Python 2.3 and I type "help()" and then "Keywords".
> I get a list of words. And it says that I can enter any of the words
> to get more help.  I enter
> "and" and I get the following error message:
> "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."
> 
> but I have set both the environment variable, with the path to be
> C:\Python23\Doc which includes python23.chm
> Why I still got the above error message?
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Hi Shi Mu,

I solved that problem by downloading the html version of the docs from 
  the python site, and placing them in the same dir as the .chm, 
setting PYTHONDOCS appropriately.

Best,

Brian vdB