[Doc-SIG] Good API doc generation in the Python world recently?
Brett C.
bac at OCF.Berkeley.EDU
Fri Jan 28 22:25:00 CET 2005
Sylvain Thénault wrote:
> On Friday 28 January à 10:51, Aahz wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jan 28, 2005, Michael Foord wrote:
>>
>>> epydoc isn't abandoned - but happydoc is.
>>>
>>> I like epydoc, but would also prefer to see a version that parsed
>>> source code rather than importing it. Would make it much harder to
>>> link classes to super classes etc though I guess.
>>
>>
>> One of the primary goals for Python 2.5 is to finally push through the
>> AST branch. If you want parsed source, consider joining python-dev and
>> helping with that project.
>
>
>
> What do you mean ? Core python being based on a more usable ast than the
> one returned by the parser module ? More than that ?
Yep. The AST branch is doing away with using the parse tree (what the parser
module returns) to generate bytecode and is instead taking a more traditional
two-step process; parse tree -> AST, AST -> bytecode.
The hope is to get it done for Python 2.5 . Now whether that includes a
marshalling ability to emit the AST as Python objects that one can use in code
is another story. I am sure people would love to have access to it but it is
not a top priority right now.
> Would be very interested if you could tell be more about your point, or
> giving me some pointers...
>
It is in Python CVS as a branch called ast-branch. There is going to be work
done at PyCon as a sprint and development will most likely continue after that
until it is finished.
-Brett
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