PYTHONDOCS, or lack thereof...

[Tino Lange]

Hallo Ross!

Just get the HTML-Documentation from 
http://www.python.org/ftp/python/doc/2.2/html-2.2.tgz

go to /usr/local/src/python/Python-2.2/Doc/html
and un-gzip it there.

Then it should work fine.

Tino

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Ross Yahnke wrote:

> Hi all - Have just installed Python 2.2 under linux. I go into python,
> type 'help()' and get the interactive help prompt. Then I try to enter
> something like FLOAT and get the message:
> 
> 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.
> 
> I have an environment PYTHONDOCS var set to:
> /usr/local/src/python/Python-2.2/Doc/html
> 
> ...but that didn't help. There doesn't seem to be much html in that
> directory anyway. Can anyone provide some clues? Thanks!
> 
> - Ross