Python documentation too difficult for beginners

Martin Gregorie martin at address-in-sig.invalid
Wed Nov 3 17:18:17 EDT 2010


On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 08:03:37 +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:

> On 02Nov2010 04:23, jk <sanjo_ie at yahoo.com> wrote: | This
> (http://epydoc.sourceforge.net/stdlib/) is what I'm talking | about.
> |
> | Why aren't the official docs like this, and why has it taken me 2 days
> | of searching? All this needs is a search engine behind it and it'd be
> | perfect.
> 
> It looks a lot like javadoc. But its weakness is stuff like this:
> 
>   http://epydoc.sourceforge.net/stdlib/Canvas.Polygon-class.html
> 
> Automatic docness, no useful information.
>
You get the same problem in Java and it has exactly the same root: a lazy 
programmer who can't be arsed to document his code.
 

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