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

Ron Adam rrr at ronadam.com
Thu Jul 29 23:21:40 CEST 2010

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.

I agree.

What do you think of having a "-i" command line option to enter an interactive help session directly from the command line.

This is easy to do. The instruction when entering and leaving need to change a bit, but that isn't hard to do.

Cheers, Ron

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