[Python-Dev] Pydoc Improvements / Rewrite

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

On Friday 05 January 2007 02:49, Talin wrote:
 > One issue that needs to be worked out, however, is the division of
 > responsibility between markup processor and output formatter. Does a
 > __markup__ plugin do both jobs, or does it just do parsing, and leave
 > the formatting of output to the appropriate HTML / text output module?
 > How does the HTML output module know how to handle non-standard metadata?

There's already __docformat__; see:

  http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0258/#choice-of-docstring-format


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.   <fdrake at acm.org>