PYTHON IS CRAP

[Mitchell Morris]

alex at magenta.com (Alex Martelli) wrote in <8ng5tt0rm7 at news1.newsguy.com>:

[yeoman's work at pyman heartlessly snipped]

>This little script no doubt could and should be enhanced,
>made more robust, etc, etc, for example with switches to
>get at richer info than just docstrings, and so on.  But
>I hope it can provide a basis for you to apply whatever
>such enhancements you desire.
>
>
>Alex

You may already be aware that Paul Prescod has submitted a similar beast for 
inclusion in the core. His implementation includes several elements, including 
an online help, a docstrings-to-HTML converter, and docstrings-to-text. It's 
all available through anonymous CVS in the nondist/sandbox/doctools directory. 
Alternately, use the web interface into said CVS tree:
<URL:http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-
bin/cvsweb.cgi/python/nondist/sandbox/doctools/?cvsroot=python>

I'm not aware what happens to move these modules into the core distribution 
since I'm not one of the elect, but I suspect completely without factual basis 
that it'll appear there sooner or later.

liked-his-better-than-mine-anyway-ly y'rs,
+Mitchell