[PYTHON DOC-SIG] Structured documentation syntax

[Marc-Andre Lemburg]

Ken Manheimer wrote:
> Having not kept track of the specifics, i don't know what disqualifies
> what i would consider the obvious candidate - angle brackets, eg,
> "<http://www.python.org>".  This is the way i've frequently seen URLs
> distinguished - is there a reason not to use them generally for
> hyperlinks?  Maybe because they specifically imply URLs, or because
> they're already dedicated to some other purpose?
> 

Why not simply use the Netscape-style of highlighting links, e.g.
simply write http://somewhere/outthere and have that converted
directly to a link ? (using the http://, ftp://,... as tag
to recognize them)

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