where is help file?

[PaulS]

new to Fedora7, typed python in interactive interpreter, then help().  Then 
modules to get a list of modules.  Then module name to get info on a module 
but no help file.  What is the help file name?  Is there an environmental 
variable I have to set?  Thanks,
Paul 


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Re: where is help file?

[PaulS]

Thanks everyone.
Paul


"Neil Cerutti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 
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> On 2007-09-14, Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 18:20 +0200, Martin Blume wrote:
>>> AFAIK you have to import the module first, before you can get
>>> help on that module.
>>
>> While that is true of the help(module_name) form, this is not
>> necessary in the interactive helper you start by calling
>> help().
>
> The interactive help function is cool. You need to download and
> install the HTML version of the standard docs to take the utmost
> advantage of it.
>
> -- 
> Neil Cerutti 


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help displaying pdf thru client/server

[PaulS]

Connecting to a Linux server from XP pc using a telnet program, I run a 
report and convert it to a pdf document(using Reportlab) which I need to 
display.  The pdf is on the Linux server. Ideas how to display to the pc 
would be appreciated. thanks, paul 


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Re: help displaying pdf thru client/server

[PaulS]

"PaulS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 
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> Connecting to a Linux server from XP pc using a telnet program, I run a 
> report and convert it to a pdf document(using Reportlab) which I need to 
> display.  The pdf is on the Linux server. Ideas how to display to the pc 
> would be appreciated. thanks, paul

Thanks for the suggestions.  I'll look at twisted first.
paul 


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