Mark Dickinson schrieb:

On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl@gmx.net mailto:g.brandl@gmx.net> wrote:

Now that the docs are reST, the source is almost pretty enough to
display
it raw, but I could also imagine a "text" writer that removes the more
obscure markup to present a casual-reader-friendly text version.

The needed sources could then be distributed with Python -- it shouldn't
be more than about 200 kb.

+1 from me. Would this mean that htmllib and sgmllib could be removed without further ado.

OK, I've now implemented this in the trunk (will merge to 3k soon -- htmllib and sgmllib can go then).

The topic help is contained in a new module, pydoc_topics.py, which pydoc imports to provide this help. The module can be generated with Sphinx by running "make pydoc-topics" in the Doc/ directory. (This is one more step for the release process, but it is an easy one.)

The module is currently ~ 400 kb in size. If this is deemed to be a problem, we could use zlib to compress the contents -- which of course is bad for systems without the zlib module (are there any?).

Georg