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| author | Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> | 2003-09-10 19:04:13 (GMT) |
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| committer | Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> | 2003-09-10 19:04:13 (GMT) |
| commit | fd4fa8801a75919dd711e9f750b8a405a639f2c2 (patch) | |
| tree | 905904096bbce05a9d2c13ba74acb56c2ba31888 | |
| parent | 6e380cd1d8555d08831caa2ec5913740e58f00b6 (diff) | |
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mention new module doc display feature of pydoc in libref and NEWS
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/lib/libpydoc.tex | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS | 5 |
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libpydoc.tex b/Doc/lib/libpydoc.tex index 0108d79..bb74df6 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libpydoc.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libpydoc.tex @@ -60,3 +60,8 @@ environment and path to locate modules. Thus, invoking \program{pydoc} \programopt{spam} documents precisely the version of the module you would get if you started the Python interpreter and typed \samp{import spam}. + +Module docs for core modules are assumed to reside in +{}\url{http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/}. This can be overridden by +setting the \envvar{PYTHONDOCS} environment variable to a different URL or +to a local directory containing the Library Reference Manual pages. @@ -62,6 +62,11 @@ Library Tools/Demos ----------- +- The pydoc script will display a link to the module documentation for + modules determined to be part of the core distribution. The documentation + base directory defaults to http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/ but can + be changed by setting the PYTHONDOCS environment variable. + - texcheck.py now detects double word errors. - md5sum.py mistakenly opened input files in text mode by default, a |