Tried Ruby (or, "what Python *really* needs" or "perldoc!")

[Diez B. Roggisch]

> Please note, I certainly don't want to step on the doc-sig folks'
> toes here -- but rather to generate more interest in what they're
> doing, and to help make Python be even better in an area that I
> see it struggling.
> 
> What do you folks think?
> 
> Yes, I'm trying to make time to look at the docutils code and the
> pydoc command to see what's involved. Unfortunately, my spare
> time is vanishingly close to zero right now.


You heard of epydoc? http://epydoc.sourceforge.net/

It pretty much does what you say I think - and for my personal projects I
use it. Maybe we an adopt it as standard-tool.

Diez