[Python-Dev] status of development documentation

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 01:43 PM 12/21/2005 -0600, Ian Bicking wrote:
>  But when I want to focus
>on content the markup is very distracting, and even moreso when writing
>about programming (where ASCII, newlines, and whitespace is the native
>layout technique).

And where characters like '<' and '>' occur frequently as part of the text, 
especially in showing Python interactions like this:

     >>> print "hello world"
     hello world

I can't imagine trying to author the above in an HTML/XML based format, 
whereas in reST (or even LaTeX) I can just copy and paste it from an 
interpreter window.