J. D. Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter Otten wrote: > >> >> You are getting no match rather than the wrong one. Have you verified that >> a subdirectory >> >> /usr/share/doc/python-2.4/html/lib >> >> exists on your system? If not, the documentation may not be properly >> installed. > > I checked it Peter and rearranged the files in the python-2.4 directory > every which way absent deleting them, all to no avail. Interestingly, the
Do strace -e trace=file -o /tmp/strace.log python -m pydoc 'if' (or some other system call tracer that is available on your system) and check /tmp/strace.log for where python is looking for the doc files. Here it's /usr/share/doc/python2.4-doc/html/ref/if.html Florian -- Einen Troll zu füttern ist das gleiche als würde man einen Haufen Hundescheisse sehen, absichtlich reinsteigen und sich dann beschweren. (Christian Schneider in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list