Re: [Visualpython-users] new files

[Arthur <ajs...@op...>]

> In the latest Windows installer the VPython index.html is in
> Lib\site-packages\visual\docs. It has a link to the local Python
> documentation, because it is present in the standard Python Windows
> distribution; I see no reason to link to the web except in the possible
> context of a stripped-down Python that didn't include documentation.

I agree.

But this is my intended solution specifically as to a stand-alone
environment that would not include the Python documentation locally.

Thinking about it though, beyond the "political" issues, IDLE is probably a
better solution than ScITE for a standalone environment.  I do think that
both an interactive prompt, and an editing environment are necessary.  ScITE
is only an editor.  I think of this in the context of documentation, because
I am actually more likely to do something like:

Python 2.2.2 (#37, Nov 26 2002, 10:24:37) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
IDLE 0.8 -- press F1 for help
>>> import cmath
>>> dir(cmath)
['__doc__', '__name__', 'acos', 'acosh', 'asin', 'asinh', 'atan', 'atanh',
'cos', 'cosh', 'e', 'exp', 'log', 'log10', 'pi', 'sin', 'sinh', 'sqrt',
'tan', 'tanh']

then I am to access the html docs, at least as a first step, in trying to
get a handle on some specific area of Python.

Of course there is always the cmd prompt, which isn't hideous on XP.  But I
do much prefer IDLE for interactive experimentation, and the like.

Art