[Idle-dev] [ idlefork-Patches-470637 ] better doc path on windows

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Patches item #470637, was opened at 2001-10-12 19:21
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Status: Open
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Priority: 7
Submitted By: Bruce Sherwood (bsherwood)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: better doc path on windows

Initial Comment:
In EditorWindow.py, I suggest a better path to the 
documentation on Windows. The old way is commented out 
below; it says to start from where EditorWindow.py is 
located, come up two parent levels, then go down to 
\Doc\index.html.

This works fine as long as idle is in Python21\Tools, 
but would not work if idle were in some arbitrary 
location.

    if sys.platform[:3] == "win":
        fn = os.path.split(sys.executable)[0]
+'\Doc\index.html'
##        fn = os.path.dirname(__file__)
##        fn = os.path.join(fn, os.pardir, 
os.pardir, "Doc", "index.html")
##        fn = os.path.normpath(fn)



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Comment By: Josh Robb (josh_robb)
Date: 2002-10-01 19:08

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During the writing of the online help system (patch coming) i 
discovered that this code already exists in the pydoc module. 
This code works on UNIX/Windows i have no idea if it works on 
Mac but if it doesn't it should be fixed in pydoc which needs this
logic anyway.


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Comment By: Kurt B. Kaiser (kbk)
Date: 2002-09-23 04:56

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Stephen Gava made some improvements in
Rev 1.23 which added pythlp.chm support
for the win platform.  (22Apr2002)

PEP 250 standardizes the location of Idle
on Windows but the canonical location of
the docs requires investigation.

Also, EditorWindow does not handle locally
installed html docs on other platforms, 
e.g. Linux.  It accesses the mother ship.

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