You can for now manually paste the resulting help url into a browser, manually xdg-open it, or use elinks as your help browser (enforced via environment variables), since elinks does not seem to be affected by the zlib issue.
Nir Zarkovian This problem can be solved by deleting libz.so.1 from /opt/hfs.xx.xx.xxx/python/lib. Make sure to backup the file in case something goes wrong.