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January 2009

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Why isn't docutils in the Python standard library yet?
by ex cord Jan. 4, 2009

Jan. 4, 2009

I notice that the Python documentation is written in reStructuredText, but that docutils is not part of the Python standard library. Is there any reason why docutils doesn't come stock with Python? Is it missing critical features? What's holding it back? For comparison, when you install Perl, the basic tools for reading POD (and converting it to other formats) come standard. And this is *Perl*, where there's supposed to be more than one way to do it and they very rarely impose any standard way to do anything upon the user. Quick observation to mention: I can't remember the last time I looked at the docs for a Python distribution and they weren't formatted in reStructuredText.

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doc-sig status page broken links
by ex cord Jan. 1, 2009

Jan. 1, 2009

On the doc-sig status page <http://www.python.org/community/sigs/current/doc-sig/status/> I notice that the links to "Robin Friedrich's starship website", "Daniel Larsson's pythondoc package", and "Daniel's older gendoc package" are all dead. The link to "Linuxdoc" is also dead.

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