[Tutor] path to use for setting the environment variable PYTHONDOCS?

Kent Johnson kent37 at tds.net
Wed Mar 7 12:15:57 CET 2007


Dick Moores wrote:
> At 02:41 PM 3/6/2007, Alan Gauld wrote:
> 
>> "Dick Moores" <rdm at rcblue.com> wrote
>>
>>> 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 Python 2.5. Where are the HTML documentation files?
>> No idea, but I suspect the answer will be platform specific.
>> Which platform are you using?
> 
> Sorry, Win XP.

I don't think the Windows installer for Python includes the HTML docs. 
You can download them from here:
http://docs.python.org/download.html

Kent


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