Re: epydoc reST markup for stdlib docstrings

Barry Warsaw <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.documentation
Organization Damn Crazy Followers of the Horn
Message-ID <20100414114349.304cae1d@heresy>
On Apr 14, 2010, at 11:13 PM, Ralf Gommers wrote:

>You're a core developer (I think). But for the *average* user, do you really
>think tags are fine? Earlier in this thread there was a mention of people
>that love to read XML. I'm exaggerating a bit of course, but this is
>similar. Whitespace beats tags for readability.

Well, I would think that help output, whether in a terminal or online would
use the raw text to do a nicer job of formatting.  It's source code
readability that concerns me.

-Barry

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