[Patch #1600491 from Jim Jewett] Describe how to build help files on Windows

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/pydoc.py b/Lib/pydoc.py
index 0fc624eb58..ce9751787b 100755
--- a/Lib/pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc.py
@@ -1737,6 +1737,9 @@ Here is a list of available topics.  Enter any topic name to get more help.
 Sorry, topic and keyword documentation is not available because the Python
 HTML documentation files could not be found.  If you have installed them,
 please set the environment variable PYTHONDOCS to indicate their location.
+
+On the Microsoft Windows operating system, the files can be built by
+running "hh -decompile . PythonNN.chm" in the C:\PythonNN\Doc> directory.
 ''')
             return
         target = self.topics.get(topic, self.keywords.get(topic))