[issue14512] Pydocs module docs server not working on Windows.

[Berker Peksag]

Changes by Berker Peksag :


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[issue14512] Pydocs module docs server not working on Windows.

[Roundup Robot]

Roundup Robot added the comment:

New changeset fa34ea4e9e47 by Martin v. Löwis in branch '3.4':
Issue #14512: Launch pydoc -b instead of pydocgui.pyw on Windows.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/fa34ea4e9e47

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[issue14512] Pydocs module docs server not working on Windows.

[Martin v . Löwis]

Martin v. Löwis added the comment:

FTR: the server itself works fine for me. I don't see an empty window, but the 
proper library index. Terry, if the issue persists for you even after the 
change to pydoc -b, please submit *another* issue.

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[issue14512] Pydocs module docs server not working on Windows.

[Martin v . Löwis]

Martin v. Löwis added the comment:

cherry-picking request in Issue20834.

I will personally not backport this to 3.3.

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[issue14512] Pydocs module docs server not working on Windows.

[Roundup Robot]

Roundup Robot added the comment:

New changeset de81e0fe4905 by Martin v. Löwis in branch 'default':
Issue #14512: Launch pydoc -b instead of pydocgui.pyw on Windows.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/de81e0fe4905

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[issue14512] Pydocs module docs server not working on Windows.

[Martin v . Löwis]

Martin v. Löwis added the comment:

Nick: the menu entry currently launches tools\scripts\pydocgui.pyw, with no 
command line options.

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[issue14512] Pydocs module docs server not working on Windows.

[Harlquinth]

Harlquinth added the comment:

We're also having the same issue here as well - I will delete the shortcut as a 
temporary fix!

Thanks, Hq.

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[issue14512] Pydocs module docs server not working on Windows.

[Terry J. Reedy]

Terry J. Reedy added the comment:

On current 3.3.4 and 3.4.0 start menus, clicking Module Docs does nothing that 
I can see except add a useless entry to the Frequent Programs list. 

I think the entry should be removed from the menu until it is made to work. All 
it does now is frustrate people and make Python look bad.

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[issue14512] Pydocs module docs server not working on Windows.

[Terry J. Reedy]

Terry J. Reedy  added the comment:

C:\Programs\Python32\Tools\Scripts>..\..\pythonw pydocgui.pyw -b
has the same behavior I described. So does -g.

The shortcut has been part of the Windows installation for many versions. It 
obviously uses pydocgui.py.

C:\Programs\Python32\Lib>pydoc.py -b
# starts one python.exe process
# prints on the next lines in the command window
Server ready at http://localhost:50695/
Server commands: [b]rowser, [q]uit
server>
# and opens blank localhost:50695 browser window
after asking for permission for python to access local network (which I gave). 
'b' at prompt opens another blank window.

C:\Programs\Python32\Lib>pydoc.py -w difflib
#prints
wrote difflib.html
#which it did, looking as expected when opened in browser, with lots of 
cross-links.

So what it seems is not working in either case is opening the html page in the 
browser or connecting it to the server.

C:\Programs\Python32\Lib>webbrowser.py python.org
opens the page in *Internet Explorer* rather than Firefox (my default browser). 
pydoc tried to connect to the server in a new FF tab.

When I re-ran pydoc and tried to open localhost:50695 in IE, it gave me the 
result of a Bing search (one help forum post), so neither browser can find 
anything at that url.

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[issue14512] Pydocs module docs server not working on Windows.

[Nick Coghlan]

Nick Coghlan  added the comment:

Hmm, we changed a few things with the way the back end server for pydoc works 
in 3.2. I didn't realise there was a Windows shortcut though, and I don't know 
how it gets generated. It sounds like it is still using the "-g" option, which 
is now deprecated.

If you run "pydoc -b" from a command line window, does that work correctly?

("-g" should still work as well, even though it's deprecated, but knowing 
whether or not "-b" is also broken may help diagnose the problem)

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[issue14512] Pydocs module docs server not working on Windows.

[Terry J. Reedy]

New submission from Terry J. Reedy :

3.2.3rc2 and 3.3.0a2, freshly downloaded and installed, Win7, 64 bit
Start Menue/Pythonxx/Module Docs
Brings up tkinter pydoc box.
[open browser] brings up *empty* localhost:7464 window.
Search 'tkinter' and double-click tkinter entry or select and [go to selected] 
opens empty localhost:7464/tkinter.html window.

This worked sometime last year on earlier 3.2, maybe on xp box.

I thought there might be an issue already, but I searched for 'pydoc' and 
'modole docs' and found nothing.

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components: Documentation, Installation, Library (Lib)
messages: 157606
nosy: docs@python, georg.brandl, loewis, terry.reedy
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: Pydocs module docs server not working on Windows.
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.2, Python 3.3

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