[PYTHON DOC-SIG] Structured documentation syntax

[Fred L. Drake]

> The "URL:" is pretty much superfluous these days, but there are other 
> address-like things presumably waiting in the wings like URIs (Uniform 
> Resourse Identifiers, I believe) that are supposed to give a measure of 
> location indepence to information. 
 
  URIs include both URLs and URNs.  URNs are Uniform Resource Names, 
and are location independent.  Some systems support format 
independence as well.  Check out <URL:http://www.handle.net/>; there 
are some interesting links at the bottom of the page. 


  -Fred

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