[Ka-Ping Yee]
That's exactly the point i'm trying to make. There isn't any markup format enforced by pydoc, precisely because it isn't worth the strife. Moshe seemed to imply that the set of deployable documentation tools was empty, and i take issue with that. His post also had an tone of hopelessness about the topic that i wanted to counter immediately.
Most programmers are followers in this matter, and I agree with Moshe on this point: until something is Officially Blessed, Python programmers will stay away from every gimmick in unbounded droves. I personally don't care whether markup is ever defined, because I already gave up on it. But I-- like you --won't wait forever for anything. We're not the norm. the-important-audience-isn't-pythondev-it's-pythonlist-ly y'rs - tim