[Fink-users] shell script for python environment

[Lincoln R. <lru...@re...>]

Hi finkers,

This is really lame, but I am always writing these little scripts to make
it easy to do common things (Unix tradition).  I wanted to share this one
that I use to start a python coding session.  It launches the idle
environment, launches a pydoc Web server process at port 8090, and
launches the dillo web browser to display your documentation.  If you
have fink, python2.3, pydoc2.3, and dillo it will just work.  I call it
pywork, and launch it with "sh ~/./pywork".  It's small:

/sw/bin/pydoc2.3 -p 8090 & dillo http://localhost:8090 &
/sw/bin/python2.3 /sw/bin/idle2.3 &

You might want to add a dillo window to point to the html documentation
if you have it, too.  I'm downloading it now, it will probably launch
with a:
/sw/bin/pydoc2.3 -p 8090 & dillo http://localhost:8090 & dillo
http://sw/share/doc/python23/Doc/html/index.html & /sw/bin/python2.3
/sw/bin/idle2.3 &

That is, if you install it in the default location.  Theoretically if you
install latex2html you should be able to build the html documentation
locally.  Does anybody know if that works?  I'm on dialup and don't feel
like pulling down latex2html right now...

Enjoy, Lincoln

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