New submission from Joseph Armbruster:
I added an option to msi.py (and a support script) that allows the user
to optionally decompile the python30.chm post installation. In doing
so, I was testing out help() from the interpreter and stumbled upon a
few things that I think are issues. One of the ways I experimented, was
by typing the following commands at the interpreter, to see what I could
pull up on the global statement:
help()
keywords
global
I had run into the following issues on my way. Additional eyes /
insight would definitely be helpful. Just a couple forewords:
- os.environ.get("PYTHONDOCS") returns 'C:\\Python30\\Doc'
- my version of the installer decompiled the Python30.chm as dictated by
pydoc. So that, c:\Python30\Doc has folders c-api, data, distutils, etc..
If I missed anything basic with these, my apologies in advanced.
Issue 1: PYTHONDOCS does not appear to be respected.
* I generated python-3.0.13865.msi and installed
* post-install I set PYTHONDOCS to C:\python30\doc
* I fired up a new command prompt
* Fire up Python3k interpreter and attempt the help() session listed
above.
* I had to hack at pydoc.py, since the #windows statement never gets
reached.
join = os.path.join
if sys.platform=='win32': #hack
self.docdir=join(execdir,'doc') #...
else: #...
for dir in [os.environ.get('PYTHONDOCS'),
homedir and os.path.join(homedir, 'doc'),
join(execdir, 'doc'), # for Windows
Issue 2: pydoc.py class Helper member keywords contain several invalid
paths. For instance:
'global': ('ref/global', 'NAMESPACES'),
Most of the keywords appear to have the ref/ prefixes.
Issue 3: formatter.py will throw an exception within push_margin /
pop_margin on the lines where a len(fstack) is attempted. The two lines
look like this:
self.writer.new_margin(margin, len(fstack))
I do not have a patch for this, since i'm still wandering about through
the whole installer generation stuffs. When I get home, I will examine
further.
Thoughts?
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components: Documentation, Windows
messages: 58751
nosy: JosephArmbruster, loewis, tiran
severity: normal
status: open
title: a couple of documentation issues
type: crash
versions: Python 3.0
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