On 19.03.2011 18:27, Jesse Noller wrote:
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Ian Bicking <ianb@colorstudy.com> wrote:
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 8:47 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
With all respect to Doug, do we really want to bless his website more than any of the other Python blogs, tutorials, etc. out on the Internet?
Bah humbug. If we could link stdlib docs to every good quality piece of coverage for that module then that would be great. It's not like someone else has been denied, or that we're giving Doug exclusive linking rights or something. It just happens he has written the most comprehensive and maintained set of docs, and so it would be bureaucratically rather easy to get a bunch more helpful links in the docs that will help people learn Python better. Frankly it doesn't matter if it's "blessed" as that doesn't incur any real benefit.
Good call!
+1000
Dougs docs are indispensable. The number of times I have had people at work and elsewhere come to me and ask "why aren't the PMOTW in, or linked to from the stdlib docs" is astounding. People consider them *better* resources than the stdlib docs right now. We shouldn't be afraid to link to real, valuable resources that enhance peoples' ability to learn the language and the standard library.
What Jesse said. Georg