Hello,
I've 2 questions about python help files:
1. how can I launch the windows help file (CHM), from python with a
keyword as argument ?
2. now when my program should also run under Linux/Mac, how should I
call the help file under Linux/Mac.
Going to the website for the help information is not an option.
thanks,
Stef
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On Oct 2, 9:13*am, Stef Mientki <stef.mien...@g mail.comwrote:
Hello,
I've 2 questions about python help files:
1. how can I launch the windows help file (CHM), from python *with a
keyword as argument ?
2. now when my program should also run under Linux/Mac, *how should I
call the help file *under Linux/Mac.
Going to the website for the help information is not an option.
thanks,
Stef
You say that you can't send them to a website for help files. Can you
make the help files HTML and launch them locally in a browser (no
internet connection required)? That would enable you to use the same
mechanism on all platforms.
Daniel
1. how can I launch the windows help file (CHM), from python with a
keyword as argument ?
Run hh.exe. If you want it to navigate to specific page, also pass that
page on the command line (finding out the exact syntax is left as an
exercise)
2. now when my program should also run under Linux/Mac, how should I
call the help file under Linux/Mac.
Provide an HTML tree of the documentation, and use the webbrowser module
to start a browser on it.
Regards,
Martin
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>1. how can I launch the windows help file (CHM), from python with a
keyword as argument ?
Run hh.exe. If you want it to navigate to specific page, also pass that
page on the command line (finding out the exact syntax is left as an
exercise)
That's one way,
in the meanwhile I found win32help.py,
which I finally got to work.
The whole hh.exe (seems also to be a wellknown virus) and win32help
documentation is very hard to find.
>2. now when my program should also run under Linux/Mac, how should I
call the help file under Linux/Mac.
Provide an HTML tree of the documentation, and use the webbrowser module
to start a browser on it.
Yes, but for context sensitive help that's a little bit primitive.
I'm now working on the idea of offering 3 levels of context sensitive
help (through F1, shift-F1, ctrl-F1):
- standard doc ( chm-keyword / html-tag )
- search on google
- help from a user defined location ( chm / html / search engine / txt /
pdf )
thanks again,
cheers,
Stef
En Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:07:21 -0300, Stef Mientki <st**********@g mail.com>
escribió:
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>>1. how can I launch the windows help file (CHM), from python with a
keyword as argument ?
Run hh.exe. If you want it to navigate to specific page, also pass that
page on the command line (finding out the exact syntax is left as an
exercise)
That's one way,
in the meanwhile I found win32help.py,
which I finally got to work.
The whole hh.exe (seems also to be a wellknown virus) and win32help
documentation is very hard to find.
hh.exe is part of the Windows OS and is included on all non-prehistoric
Windows versions. See http://support.microsoft.com/dllhelp/
win32help is part of the pywin32 package - but it's just a thin wrapper
around the help API. The authoritative documentation source should be the
Microsoft site: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc196383.aspx
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