On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 6:28 AM, Charlse Darwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Begin forwarded message: > From: Tobias Klausmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: March 23, 2008 9:16:25 AM EDT (CA) > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [pymetar-dev] man py-metar > > Hi! > > On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Charlse Darwin wrote: > > Is there any man page for py-metar? How do I use this thing > > In a way, yes. Python has its own manpage-like docs system, > called, cunningly, pydoc. > > So "pydoc pymetar" should give you a manpage-like description of > pymetars API (it's a library, so that's its primary > documentation). In case you don't have pydoc, the package comes > with a file called librarydoc.txt which is identical in content. As > for a more general description, there's also a README. Where > those files typically end up in the macports package system, I > don't know. > > > $ uname -a > > Darwin Mac.local 8.11.0 Darwin Kernel Version 8.11.0: Wed Oct 10 > > 18:26:00 PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.24.17~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh > > powerpc > > $ metar > > -bash: metar: command not found > > $ py-metar > > -bash: py-metar: command not found > > Pymetar comes with two example scripts, called pymet and > weather.py. Both are examples only but might be enough for what > you need. > > Unfortunately, I don't know where macports packages usually put > the auxillary files for installed packages. The packager might > also have removed the examples, though I doubt it. > > Maybe someone else on the -dev list can shed a light on this? > > Regards, > Tobias > 'locate pydoc' should tell you what versions of pydoc you have. There will be a system-supplied one in /usr/bin and MacPorts-provided ones in /opt/local/bin, with version numbers attached. I found pydoc2.5. I couldn't get it to run in the terminal in any useful way but running it like this: pydoc2.5 -p81 pydoc server ready at http://localhost:81/ was useful. But for all that, I found that there was no documentation for metar (I just installed it to see how this worked). I don't know why it wouldn't be installed by default. Poking around in the build directory might be informative. I would file a bug report, as I think all modules/libs should install docs if they have them. -- Paul Beard / www.paulbeard.org/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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