Ned Deily added the comment: Actually, IDLE does have code to look for an on-disk copy of the html-formatted Python documentation set but the paths are platform-specific and, in the Linux case, are out-of-date for some distributions at least. For Linux platforms it looks for `index.html` in either `/var/www/html/python` or `/usr/share/doc/python-docs-x.y/Doc/`. On current Debian systems, for example, the Python doc package is installed in `/usr/share/doc/pythonx.y-doc/html`. If you install the doc packages and then create a link, IDLE should find the docs off-line when you select `Python Docs` from the `Help` manual. For example, for Python 3.3 you *could* do:
sudo aptitude install python3.3-doc sudo mkdir -p /var/www/html/ sudo ln -s /usr/share/doc/python3.3-doc/html python That said, the default locations should be updated. And perhaps a more useful customization would be to add a user configuration option for where to look for the on-disk copy of the docs rather than adding another hot key. (Also, older versions of Python are in security fix mode only.) ---------- nosy: +ned.deily stage: -> needs patch versions: -Python 2.6, Python 3.1 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15808> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com