[issue10726] pydoc: don’t display raw reST in keyword help
Éric Araujo
report at bugs.python.org
Fri Dec 17 13:17:24 CET 2010
New submission from Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org>:
When one runs “pydoc with”, the output is a block of text marked up with reST. It would be more helpful to render it as text or HTML thanks to a minimal reST parser and transformer.
In http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-July/101563.html, Martin Geisler (Mercurial dev) said:
“We're using light-weight ReST markup in the Mercurial help texts and
transform it into straight text upon display in the terminal.
We want no external dependencies for Mercurial, so I wrote a "mini ReST"
parser in about 400 lines of code. It cheats a lot and can only handle
simple constructs...” [A few messages later] “I would be happy to relicense it under the Python license.”
So, proposed battle plan:
1) Agree this feature request is desirable.
2) Agree on the inclusion of mg’s minirst, which provides an reST parser and a plain text formatter.
3) Add an HTML formatter.
4) Wire minirst into pydoc.
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messages: 124196
nosy: eric.araujo
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: pydoc: don’t display raw reST in keyword help
type: feature request
versions: Python 3.3
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