I'm running python 2.5.2 on WinXP. I've always used a GUI for interactive development, but I wanted to try out ipython which better supports matplotlib in this mode. Unfortunately, whenever I try to use help() I get the following error:
(Sys) The system cannot find the file specified. "C:\documents" It turns out that the regular (python.exe) interpreter has the same problem. I have the HTML docs installed, my PYTHONDOCS environment variable points to the HTML directory, and I actually uninstalled and reinstalled every library I use from scratch to make sure it wasn't some random config issue. The error message leads me to believe that the help() function is trying to access something in my windows user directory structure (C: \Documents and Settings\<username>\...) and is having problems with the embedded space. The really strange thing is that my python directory is rooted at c:\python25 including my html docs. I know that ipython does by default create a profile directory in %HOME%\_ipython but that doesn't seem to be a problem and wouldn't impact the default python.exe interpreter. Any ideas? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
