[Python-Dev] Why is documentation not inline?

[Serhiy Storchaka]

20.05.13 01:33, Benjamin Peterson написав(ла):
> 2013/5/19 Demian Brecht <demianbrecht at gmail.com>:
>> It seems like external docs is standard throughout the stdlib. Is
>> there an actual reason for this?
> ernal
> One is legacy. It certainly wasn't possible with the old LaTeX doc
> system.

Do you know that TeX itself written using a "literate programming". TeX 
binary and the TeXbook are compiled from the same source.