On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Ron Adam <[email protected]> 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, but it would make sense for -g to start server on >> the port specified by -p. > > So are any thoughts on starting the web browser automatically, and on how > the -g and -p command line switches work?
My suggestion: - leave the "-g" option alone (including the tk gui), but make sure other options still work when tk is unavailable - add a "-b" option to start the server and open the webbrowser automatically - allow "-p" to be combined with either "-b" or "-g" to specify where the server should run (or is running) 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. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
