PEPs link gone from the Python homepage?
David Abrahams
dave at boost-consulting.com
Fri Sep 26 12:44:41 EDT 2003
Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> writes:
> David> Since a significant part of Python is only documented in PEPs, I
> David> am disappointed to see that they can't be easily found. Where
> David> are they?
>
> Dave,
>
> Try the left margin of the /dev/ page.
Thanks. I was looking for /dev/, too, but I always forget to scan
the top. Eventually I got there from the search page.
> If you find stuff in PEPs you believe belongs in the standard
> documentation set, please file a documentation bug report.
Oof. MRO, descriptors, most of PEPs 252 and 253 last time I checked,
just off the top of my head. Do I you really think it would make a
difference to *formally* point out that many elements of the basic
design of the object model aren't in the docs?
And, this is not a rhetorical question: how many bug reports would be
appropriate for all of this information? Some of these PEPs cover
several topics.
> While PEPs do contain a lot of valuable information, I don't think
> that using them for end-user documentation was a goal.
Sure, I knew that, but while the docs are still incomplete, you use
what you can, and it would be nice to be sure that the information
was readily accessible.
--
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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