documentation files - where to install ?

[Peter Otten]

Helmut Jarausch wrote:

> So, what's the canonical installation location for the HTML documentation
> files (if I don't want to use the environment variable PYTHONDOCS)

Here's where Python 2.3 looks for the documentation:

<pydoc.py excerpt>
        homedir = os.environ.get('PYTHONHOME')
        for dir in [os.environ.get('PYTHONDOCS'),
                    homedir and os.path.join(homedir, 'doc'),
                    os.path.join(execdir, 'doc'),
                    '/usr/doc/python-docs-' + split(sys.version)[0],
                    '/usr/doc/python-' + split(sys.version)[0],
                    '/usr/doc/python-docs-' + sys.version[:3],
                    '/usr/doc/python-' + sys.version[:3],
                    os.path.join(sys.prefix,
'Resources/English.lproj/Documentation')]:
            if dir and os.path.isdir(os.path.join(dir, 'lib')):
                self.docdir = dir
</pydoc.py excerpt>

I've got the impression there may be a 'break' missing.

Peter