On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 11:35:05 -0500, David Handy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you ever run pydoc?
No, I didn't. > On windows: Programs->Python 2.4->Module Docs On (Debian) Linux: /usr/lib/python2.3/pydoc.py -g Wow - I didn't know that something like this exists. If I knew I would not not have asked about the documentation in "the Java way". > http://docs.python.org/ Of course I know them but I think they are hard to navigate - at least I'm not used to reading them. > As for Tkinter, well, that happens to be the weakest point. Unlike the other > standard Python packages, it is not fully documented in the "official" docs But I found a lot of Tkinter information using pydoc. > I found John Grayson's "Python and Tkinter Programming" > book most useful; I wouldn't be using Tkinter without it. I'll have a look at it. The best introduction for Tkinter for me was http://www.ferg.org/thinking_in_tkinter/ > I wouldn't complain too much about them not filling up the online docs with > hundreds of pages of Tkinter material. Most graphical frameworks are complex > enough to merit a book of some kind; I wouldn't try to learn Swing from the > online Java API documents! Of course not - but it helps if you can reference the libs it later. Thanks a lot - this war really helpful to me! Best regards, Florian _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
