[Python-Dev] Re: [Patches] Translating doc strings

Martin von Loewis loewis@informatik.hu-berlin.de
Fri, 2 Jun 2000 17:05:35 +0200 (MET DST)


> I agree: this is really ugly.  Since doc-strings are something special,
> I don't think, we should travel further down this road.  I believe,
> we should use a special doc-string extration-tool (possibly build
> on top of ping's 'inspect.py'?), which will then create a .pot-file
> solely out of __doc__-strings.

I agree. Again, I'd like to advertise Fran=E7ois Pinard's xpot, which
can extract doc strings from both Python code and C code.

Regards,
Martin