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Title: Interactive help fails with Windows Installer
Type: Stage:
Components: Build Versions: Python 2.4
process
Status: closed Resolution: not a bug
Dependencies: Superseder:
Assigned To: Nosy List: cjwhrh, loewis
Priority: normal Keywords:

Created on 2005-11-11 18:21 by cjwhrh, last changed 2022-04-11 14:56 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (3)
msg26854 - (view) Author: Colin J. Williams (cjwhrh) Date: 2005-11-11 18:21 
help> SPECIALMETHODS

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.

help>
The problem appears to be that the MS Help .chm is used
and no HTML docs are provided.

Colin W.
msg26855 - (view) Author: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) * (Python committer) Date: 2005-11-13 10:20 
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That is deliberate; you have to download the HTML
documentation manually, from 

http://docs.python.org/download.html

Alternatively, just invoke

hh -decompile c:\python24\doc\html c:\python24\python24.chm
msg26856 - (view) Author: Colin J. Williams (cjwhrh) Date: 2005-11-13 14:01 
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user_id=285587

Many thanks, the hh -decompile method is simple.  Maybe a
note could be added to the Windows installer, or perhaps the
installer could do it.

Incidentally, for my machine, the command was:
hh -decompile c:\python24\doc\html c:\python24\Doc\python24.chm
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