On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Guido van Rossum wrote: > > in paul's defence, note that tim, greg stein, and moshe > > all told paul to go ahead and check it in... > > Sigh. Sorry Paul. Now I'm annoyed at Tim, Greg & Moshe. Uh, i'm afraid you'll have to add me to the list. I wanted to encourage Paul to proceed at full speed (even though i didn't get around to it before seeing the messages from the others). I've felt similarly: anything that works reasonably is better than nothing, even if it's not perfect. That said, i have been doing some stuff in this area -- check out http://www.lfw.org/python/ for inspect.py and htmldoc.py. The former in particular is useful for extracting docstrings and argument specs in a nice way. My plan was to complete htmldoc.py and try to get in into the distribution so that anyone could browse documentation on the standard library. It would include an option to start a little webserver with a one-line command so that doc pages could be automatically generated on your own modules as you work on them. The next step in the plan was to provide text output so you could ask about modules from the shell prompt (like a "man" command specific to Python) and a function call you could use from inside the interpreter to get quick help as well. -- ?!ng
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