[Python-Dev] The docs, reloaded (original) (raw)
Ronald Oussoren ronaldoussoren at mac.com
Wed May 23 13:10:30 CEST 2007
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On Wednesday, May 23, 2007, at 12:40PM, <skip at pobox.com> wrote:
Nick> If you type "pydoc re" at the moment then it says in it Nick> MODULE DOCS Nick> http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-re.html Nick> which is pretty much useless to me when ssh-ed in to a linux box Nick> half way around the world... I get quite a bit of information about re (I've never known /F to be a documentation slouch). Only one bit of that information is a reference to the page in the library reference manual. And if I happen to be ssh'd into a machine halfway round the world through a Gnome terminal I can right mouse over that URL and pop the page up in my default local browser. If you set the PYTHONDOCS environment variable you can point it to a local (or at least different) copy of the libref manual. A flag could be added to pydoc to show that content instead, however being html it probably would be difficult to read unless pumped through lynx -dump or something similar.
pydoc can already do this for the language reference (try 'pydoc import' on a system with a local install of the python documentation).
Ronald
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