http://hg.python.org/peps/rev/34cb64cdbf7b changeset: 5325:34cb64cdbf7b user: Guido van Rossum <guido@dropbox.com> date: Fri Nov 29 10:26:55 2013 -0800 summary: Add brief explanation and web pointers to README.txt. Fixes issue 19822. files: README.txt | 17 ++++++++++++++--- 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt --- a/README.txt +++ b/README.txt @@ -1,12 +1,23 @@ +Python Enhancement Proposals +============================ + +The PEPs in this repo are published automatically on the web at +http://www.python.org/dev/peps/. To learn more about the purpose of +PEPs and how to go about writing a PEP, please start reading at PEP 1 +(pep-0001.txt in this repo). Note that PEP 0, the index PEP, is now +automatically generated, and not committed to the repo. + + reStructuredText for PEPs ========================= Original PEP source may be written using two standard formats, a mildly idiomatic plaintext format and the reStructuredText format -(also, technically plaintext). These two formats are described in PEP -9 and PEP 12 respectively. The pep2html.py processing and +(also, technically plaintext). These two formats are described in +PEP 9 and PEP 12 respectively. The pep2html.py processing and installation script knows how to produce the HTML for either PEP format. For processing reStructuredText format PEPs, you need the docutils -package, which is available from PyPI. +package, which is available from PyPI (http://pypi.python.org). +If you have pip, "pip install docutils" should install it. -- Repository URL: http://hg.python.org/peps