Re: [Python-Dev] [isssue 2001] Pydoc enhancement patch questions

2010-07-29 Thread Ron Adam
FWIW, I am +1 on dropping tkinter interface. Tkinter window looks foreign next to browser and server-side GUI that opens a new client window with each search topic does not strike me as most usable design. Furthermore, I just tried to use it on my OSX laptop and it crashed after I searched

Re: [Python-Dev] [isssue 2001] Pydoc enhancement patch questions

2010-07-28 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 1:25 AM, Ron Adam r...@ronadam.com wrote: Another way to communicate to the server would be to add a link in the browser to open a server status page.  For example my router has a configure page where I can check it's status and do other things. That might be something

Re: [Python-Dev] [isssue 2001] Pydoc enhancement patch questions

2010-07-26 Thread Ron Adam
On 07/25/2010 12:01 PM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote: On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Ron Adamr...@ronadam.com wrote: .. I'd be completely fine with dropping the Search For box from the GUI interface, but the persistent window listing the served port and providing Open Browser and Quit

Re: [Python-Dev] [isssue 2001] Pydoc enhancement patch questions

2010-07-26 Thread Ronald Oussoren
On 24 Jul, 2010, at 23:29, Alexander Belopolsky wrote: Furthermore, I just tried to use it on my OSX laptop and it crashed after I searched for pydoc and clicked on the first entry. (Another issue is that search window pops under the terminal window.) Could you please file a bug for this? I

Re: [Python-Dev] [isssue 2001] Pydoc enhancement patch questions

2010-07-26 Thread Alexander Belopolsky
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Ronald Oussoren ronaldousso...@mac.com wrote: .. Could you please file a bug for this? I have no idea whether or not it is an easy to fix one, but without an issue in the tracker this is something that is unlikely to get fixed.

Re: [Python-Dev] [isssue 2001] Pydoc enhancement patch questions

2010-07-26 Thread Ron Adam
On 07/24/2010 10:44 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: To request automatic assignment of a local port number, -p 0 could be made to work correctly (i.e. print out the actual port the OS assigned rather than the 0 that was passed in on the command line as it does currently). I was able to implement

Re: [Python-Dev] [isssue 2001] Pydoc enhancement patch questions

2010-07-25 Thread Ron Adam
On 07/24/2010 10:38 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 5:34 AM, Ron Adamr...@ronadam.com wrote: On 07/24/2010 05:37 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Ron Adamr...@ronadam.comwrote: I am not sure I like the fact that the browser is started

Re: [Python-Dev] [isssue 2001] Pydoc enhancement patch questions

2010-07-25 Thread Alexander Belopolsky
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Ron Adam r...@ronadam.com wrote: .. I'd be completely fine with dropping the Search For box from the GUI interface, but the persistent window listing the served port and providing Open Browser and Quit Serving buttons still seems quite useful even without the

Re: [Python-Dev] [isssue 2001] Pydoc enhancement patch questions

2010-07-24 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Ron Adam r...@ronadam.com wrote: I am not sure I like the fact that the browser is started automatically. Please bring this up on python-dev.  This may be an opportunity to rethink pydoc command line switches.  For example, -p and -g are currently exclusive,

Re: [Python-Dev] [isssue 2001] Pydoc enhancement patch questions

2010-07-24 Thread Alexander Belopolsky
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 6:37 AM, Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: .. For the -b option, if the server is already running (and hence the port is in use), catch the exception, print a message and start the webbrowser anyway. I was going to make a similar suggestion, but then realized that

Re: [Python-Dev] [isssue 2001] Pydoc enhancement patch questions

2010-07-24 Thread Ron Adam
On 07/24/2010 10:16 AM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote: On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 6:37 AM, Nick Coghlanncogh...@gmail.com wrote: .. For the -b option, if the server is already running (and hence the port is in use), catch the exception, print a message and start the webbrowser anyway. I was

Re: [Python-Dev] [isssue 2001] Pydoc enhancement patch questions

2010-07-24 Thread Ron Adam
On 07/24/2010 05:37 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Ron Adamr...@ronadam.com wrote: I am not sure I like the fact that the browser is started automatically. Please bring this up on python-dev. This may be an opportunity to rethink pydoc command line switches. For

Re: [Python-Dev] [isssue 2001] Pydoc enhancement patch questions

2010-07-24 Thread Alexander Belopolsky
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Ron Adam r...@ronadam.com wrote: On 07/24/2010 05:37 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: .. - leave the -g option alone (including the tk gui), but make sure other options still work when tk is unavailable I was hoping it would be ok to drop the tk gui in pydoc.  

Re: [Python-Dev] [isssue 2001] Pydoc enhancement patch questions

2010-07-24 Thread Ron Adam
On 07/24/2010 04:29 PM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote: On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Ron Adamr...@ronadam.com wrote: On 07/24/2010 05:37 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: .. - leave the -g option alone (including the tk gui), but make sure other options still work when tk is unavailable I was

Re: [Python-Dev] [isssue 2001] Pydoc enhancement patch questions

2010-07-24 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 5:34 AM, Ron Adam r...@ronadam.com wrote: On 07/24/2010 05:37 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Ron Adamr...@ronadam.com  wrote: I am not sure I like the fact that the browser is started automatically. Please bring this up on python-dev.  

Re: [Python-Dev] [isssue 2001] Pydoc enhancement patch questions

2010-07-24 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 1:16 AM, Alexander Belopolsky alexander.belopol...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 6:37 AM, Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: .. For the -b option, if the server is already running (and hence the port is in use), catch the exception, print a message and

[Python-Dev] [isssue 2001] Pydoc enhancement patch questions

2010-07-23 Thread Ron Adam
This regards the following feature request. http://bugs.python.org/issue2001 Summery: The pydoc gui enhancement patch adds a navigation bar on each page with features that correspond to abilities that are currently available to help. ie.. a get field, to get help on an item, a find