[Python-Dev] pydoc for 2.1b1?

Guido van Rossum guido@digicool.com
Tue, 27 Feb 2001 00:04:28 -0500


> On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 09:08:36PM -0500, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> >You can check these into the regular tree.  I guess they both go into
> >the Lib directory, right?  Make sure pydoc.py is checked in with +x
> >permissions.  I'll see if we can import pydoc.help into __builtin__ in
> >interactive mode.
> 
> What about installing it as a script, into <prefix>/bin, so it's also
> available at the command line?  The setup.py script could do it, or
> the Makefile could handle it.  

Sounds like a good idea.  (Maybe idle can also be installed if Tk is
found.)  Go for it.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)