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When I run the command: pydoc django.views.generic I get the error: problem in django.views.generic - <class 'django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured'>: Requested setting DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE, but settings are not configured. You must either define the environment variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE or call settings.configure() before accessing settings How can I get the pydoc documentation for django.views.generic ? Importing many of Django's modules pulls in other modules that depend on being in a Django project environment. Create a dummy project, and use its settings. $ django-admin.py

I have to customize __getattr__ to call another function to read. This works well except the help(object.attr) does not work. This code is used in an interactive environment, so the help() becomes important to us. Is there a better design to achieve same features but with help() working well. The text that is used for "help" is indeed the " __doc__ " attribute of an object. The matter is that depending on the object you have, you can't simply set the __doc__ attribute on it. If what you need is " help(object.attr) " to work (and not that help(object) shows you all possible attributes) it is a

pydoc does not work in Windows. at this post Pydoc is not working (Windows XP) the last answer by dave webb says to create a pydoc.bat file with this code in it: @python c:\Python27\Lib\pydoc.py %* After I create pydoc.bat where should it be placed so the pydoc command works in the command prompt? PS adding C:\python27\Lib\pydoc.py to the Windows path in the system environment variables does not work. Even after logging out and back in it does not work. PS adding C:\python27\Lib\pydoc.py to the Windows path in the system environment variables does not work. Even after logging out and back in

I'm trying to create a document out of my module. I used pydoc from the command-line in Windows 7 using Python 3.2.3: python "<path_to_pydoc_>\pydoc.py" -w myModule This led to my shell being filled with text, one line for each file in my module, saying: no Python documentation found for '<file_name>' It's as if Pydoc's trying to get documentation for my files, but I want to autocreate it. I couldn't find a good tutorial using Google. Does anyone have any tips on how to use Pydoc? If I try to create documentation from one file using python ... -w myModule\myFile.py it says wrote myFile.html ,

Using Windows XP and Python 2.7 I tried to run "pydoc" through the terminal. unfortunately it doesn't work. Since I'm not allowed to post a screenshot (Newbie). Here is what it says (white on black) What I type: "C:\Python27>pydoc raw_input /"pydoc raw_input" My result (It's German an it roughly translates to"The command "pydoc" is either spelled wrong or couldn't be found.): Der Befehl "pydoc" ist entweder falsch geschrieben oder konnte nicht gefunden werden. What am I doing wrong? By the way, I just started to teach myself programming using Zed Shaws "Learn Python the Hard Way" and this is