manpage of python 2.3?

[leo]

hi there

i got the distribution of python 2.3 for windows.

but i couldn't find a manpage (i use cygwin) nor a general documentation
which commandline switches python recognizes.

any idea?

cheers, leo

 

[Irmen de Jong]

but i couldn't find a manpage (i use cygwin) nor a general documentation
which commandline switches python recognizes.

any idea?

Try python -h from a dos prompt?

--Irmen

 

[leo]

Try python -h from a dos prompt?

thanks for your hint, but that's still not a real manpage, processable by
man; - with all its conviniece:
- viewing in emacs
- printing with mapga e print, etc.

so, is there a real manpage for python2.3. around?

thanks, leo

 

[Iwan van der Kleyn]

so, is there a real manpage for python2.3. around?

Python doesn't come with extensive man pages like for example Perl (man
perintro etc). On Debian Linux there's a rather rudementary man page,
showing possible command line options.

http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/python.1.html

Of course, you could use links/lynx to view Python's excellent html
documentation from the console.

Regards,

Iwan

 

[km]

Python doesn't come with extensive man pages like for example Perl (man
perintro etc). On Debian Linux there's a rather rudementary man page,
showing possible command line options.

http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/python.1.html

Of course, you could use links/lynx to view Python's excellent html
documentation from the console.

may be excellent but not as comfortable as of Perl documentation on the system. well thats a poor feature of Python.

KM

 

[Iwan van der Kleyn]

may be excellent but not as comfortable as of Perl documentation on the system. well thats a poor feature of Python.

It depends a bit on taste and custom, I guess. On Debian it's a matter of:
~# apt-get -t unstable install python2.3-doc (install documentation)
~# links /usr/share/doc/python2.3-doc/html/index.html (et voila)

For me pydoc is an indispensible tool searching through the Python
documentation, added with the Python Docs as generated by epydoc
(epydoc.sourceforge.net).

On Windows you have the docs in the searchable HTMLHelp format. On other
platforms you could run an indexing tool on the docs (i.e. htdig).

-- That brings up a thought: I would have expected pydoc to come with a
search facility for the Python docs. Has this ever been attempted?

Regards,

Iwan