Maintaining the Python FAQ

Roman Suzi rnd at onego.ru
Fri Jul 6 12:29:53 EDT 2001


On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Emile van Sebille wrote:

>The first reference to the faq on python.org does this.  It's not so much a
>question of why would you, more so how could you not the first time.  Maybe
>drop the complete reference on the front page, leaving the reference to it

Oh, no. "FAQ" is one of the eye catches, like "Download" ;-)

>on the faq wizard page so that you know when clicking it that you'll get a
>bunch.
>
>http://python.org/doc/FAQ.html
>
>--
>
>Emile van Sebille
>emile at fenx.com
>
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>"Guido van Rossum" <guido at python.org> wrote in message
>news:cpvgl6jbyz.fsf at cj20424-a.reston1.va.home.com...
>> Oleg Broytmann <phd at phd.fep.ru> writes:
>>
>> > On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> > > Hm.  To what extent is the current FAQ wizard a problem for its
>> >
>> >    For me the biggest problem is not the FAQ Wizard, but FAQ.html - it
>is
>> > too big. 270K is too big for the Net. Let us split it intopages.
>>
>> Huh?  The FAQ wizard gives you plenty of ways to access individual
>> items or sections.  Why would you ever download the whole FAQ?
>>
>> --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
>
>

Sincerely yours, Roman Suzi
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