[Python-Dev] query: docstring formatting in python distutils code

[Steve Holden]

Fred Drake wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Alexander Belopolsky
> <alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am against mark-up in doc-strings, but this problem can be easily
>> solved by placing a magic character at __doc__[0] to indicate that the
>> rest is  (mini)reST.
> 
> Or __docformat__ can be set appropriately.  See:
> 
>     http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0258/#id42
> 
That is _so_ Python 2 ;-)

regards
 Steve
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