Ron Adam schrieb:
Improving pydoc has been suggested before by me and others. I've been working on a version that is probably 80% done and would like to get feed back at this point to determine if I'm approaching this in the best way.
Basically pydoc.py consists of over 2,000 lines of python code and is not well organized inside which means (my thoughts) it will pretty much stay the way it is and not be as useful as it could be.
Currently pydoc.py has the following uses.
* It is imported and used as pythons console help function. * It can be used to generate help text files. * It can open a tkinter search index and from that launch a web server anda browser to veiw a html help page. * It can be used to generate static html help files.
It looks (to me) like splitting it into two modules would be good. One module for just the text help and introspection functions, and the other for the html server and html output stuff.
Yes, I remember several cases where I had to copy code out of pydoc.py because I wanted to reuse it and could not because pydoc pulls in too much stuff (I care about this when freezing my programs with py2exe). Is splitting pydoc into 2 modules sufficient, or should it even be split into an own package?
Although I do not believe that this is on-topic for *this* list; I would prefer such changes to go into Python 2.6 already.
Thomas
BTW: It seems this list is not yet available on gmane. Is this correct?