Proposal: Python Info Collective

[Manuel Gutierrez Algaba]

On Sun, 14 Nov 1999 20:56:09 GMT, Jules Allen
 <usenet-mm-yyyy at julesallen.com> wrote:

>Thanks for the History lesson! This helps put it all in perspective
>but why *something* hasn't been built before now is kind of weird.

The problem we have here, it's that we need a easy method of putting
many information together, so it's easy for the _newbie_ and for
the wizard to find it.
Trove has proved to be a failure just because it's too complex
to programm it, to finish it. Why we don't attach to the simplest
method of collecting info ?

Why don't we make small pieces of info attributed like this:
\jiji
BabylMailbox

Access a Babyl mailbox, which is similar to an
MMDF mailbox.  Mail messages start with a
 line containing only <literal>'*** EOOH ***'</literal> and end
 with a line containing only <literal>'\037\014'</literal>.

 A file object fp that  points to the mailbox file.

Initialize the mailbox object and point to the first
 message in the mailbox.

\indexmoduleinbox  \indexBabylMailbox \indexclassdefinition
\indexmmdf
\jiji    

This is so general and vague that can be used for ANYTHING,
and it's so simple that anybody can use it. This is 
the method i've used for:
http://www.ctv.es/USERS/irmina/TeEncontreX.html

Why to make it complex if it can be very simple ???
Only simple and general things are commonly accepted and used
(or it should be so!)
-- 
Manolo