[Python-checkins] gh-95841: IDLE - Revise Windows local doc url (GH-95845) (#95905)

[terryjreedy]

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/577dbc3c49615896d5b6fbf0cb25eebd4d28624a
commit: 577dbc3c49615896d5b6fbf0cb25eebd4d28624a
branch: 3.11
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: terryjreedy <tjreedy at udel.edu>
date: 2022-08-11T20:11:17-04:00
summary:

gh-95841: IDLE - Revise Windows local doc url (GH-95845) (#95905)

GH-91242 replaced the Windows chm help file with a copy
of the html docs.  This PR replaces the IDLE code that
fetches the Windows local help url passed to os.startfile.

Co-authored-by: Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu>
Co-authored-by: Steve Dower
Approved by Steve Dower, #95845 (review), 2nd subblock.

(cherry picked from commit bdb2cf8e913c041f26e8976abe58414819b3e8ff)

files:
M Lib/idlelib/editor.py

diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/editor.py b/Lib/idlelib/editor.py
index 859a288b4bc..08d6aa2efde 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/editor.py
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/editor.py
@@ -86,10 +86,20 @@ def __init__(self, flist=None, filename=None, key=None, root=None):
                     dochome = os.path.join(basepath, pyver,
                                            'Doc', 'index.html')
             elif sys.platform[:3] == 'win':
-                chmfile = os.path.join(sys.base_prefix, 'Doc',
-                                       'Python%s.chm' % _sphinx_version())
-                if os.path.isfile(chmfile):
-                    dochome = chmfile
+                import winreg  # Windows only, block only executed once.
+                docfile = ''
+                KEY = (rf"Software\Python\PythonCore\{sys.winver}"
+                        r"\Help\Main Python Documentation")
+                try:
+                    docfile = winreg.QueryValue(winreg.HKEY_CURRENT_USER, KEY)
+                except FileNotFoundError:
+                    try:
+                        docfile = winreg.QueryValue(winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,
+                                                    KEY)
+                    except FileNotFoundError:
+                        pass
+                if os.path.isfile(docfile):
+                    dochome = docfile
             elif sys.platform == 'darwin':
                 # documentation may be stored inside a python framework
                 dochome = os.path.join(sys.base_prefix,