Commit fd4fa880 authored by Skip Montanaro's avatar Skip Montanaro

mention new module doc display feature of pydoc in libref and NEWS

parent 6e380cd1
......@@ -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
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