[Distutils] [setuptools] Interactive help (was Re: documentation for mechanize)

[John J Lee]

On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Michael P. Soulier wrote:

>>>> import mechanize
>>>> help(mechanize)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
[...]
> OSError: [Errno 20] Not a directory:
> '/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/mechanize-0.0.11a-py2.3.egg/mechanize'
>
> Does this not work with egg files? Has anyone told the PEAK people about
> this problem? Is there another way to get at the docstrings? Could we
> just dump the html output from pydoc to the website?

Is this expected?


John