[Python-Dev] [isssue 2001] Pydoc enhancement patch questions (original) (raw)

Alexander Belopolsky alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com
Sat Jul 24 23:29:22 CEST 2010

On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Ron Adam <rrr at ronadam.com> wrote:

On 07/24/2010 05:37 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: .. - leave the "-g" option alone (including the tk gui), but make sure other options still work when tk is unavailable I was hoping it would be ok to drop the tk gui in pydoc.  Keeping it requires rewriting the tk gui interface to use the new server because the server code and the gui code are not cleanly separate.  I can do this if it's really wanted. (Nothing against tKinter, I use it for my own gui apps.) FWIW, I am +1 on dropping tkinter interface. Tkinter window looks foreign next to browser and server-side GUI that opens a new client window with each search topic does not strike me as most usable design. Furthermore, I just tried to use it on my OSX laptop and it crashed after I searched for pydoc and clicked on the first entry. (Another issue is that search window pops under the terminal window.) I think Tkinter interface to pydoc may make sense in IDLE, but not in the main pydoc GUI. If the equivalent functionality is available in the browser (preferably in the style familiar to docs.python.org users, I don't see why we need to keep old GUI and hide new behind a new option.

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