Help System For Python Applications

[redefined.horizons at gmail.com]

Thanks for the link Paul. It looks like you've done some good work on
that module.

I'll check it out.

Scott

Paul Boddie wrote:
> bruno at modulix wrote:
> > redefined.horizons at gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > > On a related note, is there a way to fire up Adobe's Acorbat Reader or
> > > and Web Browser from Python and have the external application open a
> > > specified PDF or HTML file? (For example, I want to open the file
> > > "myhelp.pdf" in reader from Python code.)
> >
> > os.system() may be a good start.
>
> Take a look at the desktop module for a partial solution:
>
> http://www.python.org/pypi/desktop
>
> An example:
>
> import desktop
> desktop.open("itools-0.9.0.pdf")
>
> Apparently, os.startfile will expose (or already exposes) other
> parameters which may specify that the file be printed, amongst other
> things. I may well add such functionality to the desktop module, since
> various non-Windows systems have supported such things for a while.
> 
> Paul