Re: missing pydoc gui

2007-12-26 Thread TommW
JimG wrote: > On Dec 26, 1:56 pm, Bernard Delmée <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> (I know replying to self is a sure sign of aging :-) >> A quick update: after installing the 'tkinter' fedora >> package (still in live-cd mode), the following 3 lines >> script does what "pydoc -g " should: >> >>

Re: missing pydoc gui

2007-12-26 Thread JimG
On Dec 26, 1:56 pm, Bernard Delmée <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (I know replying to self is a sure sign of aging :-) > A quick update: after installing the 'tkinter' fedora > package (still in live-cd mode), the following 3 lines > script does what "pydoc -g " should: > > import Tkinter >

Re: missing pydoc gui

2007-12-26 Thread Bernard Delmée
(I know replying to self is a sure sign of aging :-) A quick update: after installing the 'tkinter' fedora package (still in live-cd mode), the following 3 lines script does what "pydoc -g " should: import Tkinter import pydoc pydoc.gui() HTH, Bernard. -- http://mail.python.org/m

Re: missing pydoc gui

2007-12-26 Thread Bernard Delmée
I see what you mean, having started my fedora8-live image under virtualbox. -g support is apparently not there with this distribution, oddly enough. Perhaps you should post your question on a fedora support forum. Under the live cd (hence probably with a smaller selection of available packages tha

Re: missing pydoc gui

2007-12-26 Thread JimG
On Dec 26, 10:43 am, JimG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 26, 9:46 am, Bernard Delmée <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > FWIW I am using 2.4.4 under debian etch and 2.5.1 under windows XP, > > and pydoc seems to support the -[pgkw] flags under both versions. > > When trying -g under debian,

Re: missing pydoc gui

2007-12-26 Thread JimG
On Dec 26, 9:46 am, Bernard Delmée <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FWIW I am using 2.4.4 under debian etch and 2.5.1 under windows XP, > and pydoc seems to support the -[pgkw] flags under both versions. > When trying -g under debian, I am getting a stack-trace and a message > inviting me to install th

Re: missing pydoc gui

2007-12-26 Thread Bernard Delmée
FWIW I am using 2.4.4 under debian etch and 2.5.1 under windows XP, and pydoc seems to support the -[pgkw] flags under both versions. When trying -g under debian, I am getting a stack-trace and a message inviting me to install the python-tk package. Does "pydoc -g" provide any feedback on your ins

Re: missing pydoc gui

2007-12-26 Thread JimG
On Dec 26, 8:27 am, Bernard Delmée <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Jim, I guess you're missing tk and its tkinter > python wrapper. Sorry I don't know what the corresponding > packages would be called under fedora... Hi Bernard, Thanks for the suggestion, however, that does not seem to be the rea

Re: missing pydoc gui

2007-12-26 Thread Bernard Delmée
Hi Jim, I guess you're missing tk and its tkinter python wrapper. Sorry I don't know what the corresponding packages would be called under fedora... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: missing pydoc gui

2007-12-24 Thread JimG
On Dec 24, 9:23 am, JimG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just read about the pydoc gui in "Learning Python." But it's > mysteriously absent from my Fedora 8 Python installation. Searching > the filesystem exhaustively turns up no pydocgui script anywhere, and > not only does "pydoc -g" not work, m

missing pydoc gui

2007-12-24 Thread JimG
I just read about the pydoc gui in "Learning Python." But it's mysteriously absent from my Fedora 8 Python installation. Searching the filesystem exhaustively turns up no pydocgui script anywhere, and not only does "pydoc -g" not work, my Python documentation has no mention of it, it describes py