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[Python-Dev] Documentation for ability to execute zipfiles & directories

[Python-Dev] Documentation for ability to execute zipfiles & directoriesFrank Wierzbicki fwierzbicki at gmail.com
Sun May 18 21:05:59 CEST 2008
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 1:36 PM, A.M. Kuchling <amk at amk.ca> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 08:58:57AM -0500, Steve Holden wrote:
>> While I hesitate to suggest a change of such magnitude, there's
>> something to recommend the old IBM mainframe approach of separating out
>> "Principles of Operation" (which would be the reference manuals, in
>> Python's case the Language and Library refs) from "Users' Guide" which
>> contains the practical stuff you need to actually make use of a product.
>
> Good suggestion.  Using the debugger and profiler could also be
> covered in the User's Guide.
>
> Would splitting up the docs make them more useful for
> IronPython/Jython?  For example, Jython could eventually take the 2.6
> language docs as-is, but modify the library reference to remove
> unsupported modules and add Jython-specific ones.
Speaking for Jython, this would be extremely helpful for us.  Once we
get caught up, better docs will become one of our most important
priorities I think.

-Frank
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