PythonWin, AutoDoc and german keyboards...

[Werner Merkl]

Hallo,


PythonWin is really great and like to use it all the time.

But, I use to an us keyboard and get support strings (.__doc__).
On the other side, most of my colleges use German keyboards and
the do not get these strings at all.

We are using:
- Python 2.4
- PyWin32 203

Here is an example:
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When we enter range with us keyboard we get:[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> range([/color][/color][/color]
[range([start,] stop[, step]) -> list of integers]

When we do this with German keyboard we get... nothing,

except we enter:[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> range)[/color][/color][/color]
[range([start,] stop[, step]) -> list of integers]


You see, if we press ")" on German KB, which is "(" on us KB
we get the help...

BTW: Changes to Python24\Lib\si te-packages\python win\pywin\defau lt.cfg
didn't help.


Is this a known issue?
And is there a work around?
Or do we have to take an other IDE like SPE?


Thank you in advance
Werner Merkl

[Neil Hodgson]

Re: PythonWin, AutoDoc and german keyboards...

Werner Merkl:
[color=blue]
> When we enter range with us keyboard we get:[color=green][color=darkred]
> >>> range([/color][/color]
> [range([start,] stop[, step]) -> list of integers]
>
> When we do this with German keyboard we get... nothing,
>...
> BTW: Changes to Python24\Lib\si te-packages\python win\pywin\defau lt.cfg
> didn't help.[/color]

It appears that the bindings are done by key code rather than character.
You may be able to patch this up in pythonwin\pywin \scintilla\keyc odes.py

Neil