ANN: HappyDoc 2.0

[Doug Hellmann]

Announcing the latest version of HappyDoc, a Python documentation extraction 
tool.

  HappyDoc is a tool for extracting documentation from Python source
  code.  It differs from other such applications by the fact that it
  uses the parse tree for a module to derive the information used in
  its output, rather that importing the module directly.  This allows
  the user to generate documentation for modules which need special
  context to be imported.

  More details are available on the HappyDoc home page at
  http://happydoc.sourceforge.net.

  !!! NOTICE !!!

    Before installing HappyDoc 2.0+, any version earlier than 2.0 must
    be removed.  This includes the file 'happydoc.pth' and directory
    'happydoc' in site-packages, as well as the executable 'happydoc'
    in the 'bin' directory.

  Version 2.0 -- 

    - **New Features**

      - Rearranged much of the code base to create 'happydoclib'
        package.  This package protects the namespace for HappyDoc
        related code, and makes it easier to reuse HappyDoc components
        in other projects.

      - Package descriptions can now come from the docstring of the
        '__init__.py' module, instead of always having to be in a README
        file.

    - **Bug Fixes**

      - Fixed a problem with the HTMLTable formatter that caused pages
        to look odd in browsers which don't handle width attributes the
        same way as Netscape.

      - Upgraded to newer version of StructuredText package from Zope
        CVS, resolving several rendering issues for the HTML formatter.

    - **Other Changes**

      - Changed command line argument handling to use '-' character in
        names in addtition to underscore.  That is, defining an
        optionHandler_long_opt will allow the app to accept '--long-opt'
        or '--long_opt'.  The help text uses the '-' form, but both
        are allowed on the command line for backwards compatability.

      - Updated test cases to streamline regression testing.

      - Rearranged some of the documentation from the root
        'README.txt' into sub-packages.


Download

  Download the latest version of HappyDoc from the home page on
  SourceForge:

     http://sourceforge.net/projects/happydoc