Re: [Python-ideas] PEP 9 - plaintext PEP format - is officially deprecated

On Jan 11, 2016, at 03:25 PM, anatoly techtonik wrote:

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 2:49 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:

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reStructuredText is clearly a better format

Can you expand on that? I use markdown everywhere

reST is better than plain text. Markdown is not a PEP format option.

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all recent PEP submissions have been in reST for a while now anyway.

Is it possible to query exact numbers automatically?

Feel free to grep the PEPs hg repo.

What is the tooling support for handling PEP 9 and PEP 12?

UTSL. Everything is in the PEPs hg repo. Cheers, -Barry