missing pydoc gui

[JimG]

On Dec 26, 9:46 am, Bernard Delmée <bdelmee at advalvas._REMOVEME_.be>
wrote:
> FWIW I am using 2.4.4 under debian etch and 2.5.1 under windows XP,
> and pydoc seems to support the -[pgkw] flags under both versions.
> When trying -g under debian, I am getting a stack-trace and a message
> inviting me to install the python-tk package.
>
> Does "pydoc -g" provide any feedback on your installation?
>
> One nice alternative for python standard doc is the .CHM file
> provided at python.org. You can use the "xchm" viewer under linux.
>
> On 26/12/2007 14:56, JimG wrote:
>
>
>
> > Thanks for the suggestion, however, that does not seem to be the
> > reason since I already have both tk and tkinter.  I tried adding tk-
> > devel but that made no difference.

That's the weird part.  The man page for pydoc doesn't mention -g as a
supported option and the output of pydoc -g just prints out the usage/
options information -- -k, -p, -w are the options.  As if the version
of pydoc I have is built without gui support.