[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I did some searching for this topic, but couldn't find anything. A > search of this list only turned up an old post from 2002. > > I'd like to add a comprehesive help system to my Python Application. By > "comprehensive" I mean regular "read-like-a-book" help and context > sensitive help that can be launched from the application. > > Is there an existing system in Python that would support this, or would > I need to start from scratch?
This depends on the system and UI, so their can be no one-size-fits-all builtin solution. Hint : look at how other programs using the same system and UI solved the problem. > On a related note, is there a way to fire up Adobe's Acorbat Reader or > and Web Browser from Python and have the external application open a > specified PDF or HTML file? (For example, I want to open the file > "myhelp.pdf" in reader from Python code.) os.system() may be a good start. HTH -- bruno desthuilliers python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for p in '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.split('@')])" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list