[Python-Dev] The docs, reloaded

[Michael Foord]

Georg Brandl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> over the last few weeks I've hacked on a new approach to Python's documentation.
> As Python already has an excellent documentation framework, the docutils, with a
> readable yet extendable markup format, reST, I thought that it should be
> possible to use those instead of the current LaTeX->latex2html toolchain.
>
> For the impatient: the result can be seen at <http://pydoc.gbrandl.de>.
>   

Wow! Very impressive.

Changing to ReST would encourage more contributions to the documentation 
and widen the range of people able to maintain them.

Michael Foord