[Python-Dev] Searching Python docs (Was: Python sidebar for Mozilla/Netscape) (original) (raw)

Thomas Heller thomas.heller@ion-tof.com
Fri, 5 Apr 2002 17:03:15 +0200

From: "Tom Emerson" <tree@basistech.com>

Thomas Heller writes: > I'm interested in feedback: Is it usefull at all? Should > something like this go into the Python distribution? How can it be > improved? What should be the user interface - currently it is command > line only and usable from the interactive interpreter programmatically.

Cool: I had to modify it slightly to run correctly on my system (FreeBSD 4.4 with Lynx) (change below) but otherwise it's great.

I've implemented your change, and I have already extended it to also work as a CGI script. The preliminary version is online at http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/cgi-bin/pyhelp.cgi

Anyway, at least on one question I would really like to get more answers : when writing python code or C extensions, how do people quickly look up definitions of functions, let's say PyObject_GC_New() or the meaning of METH_O ?

Thanks,

Thomas