[Python-Dev] query: docstring formatting in python distutils code

[Fred Drake]

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Alexander Belopolsky
<alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am against mark-up in doc-strings, but this problem can be easily
> solved by placing a magic character at __doc__[0] to indicate that the
> rest is  (mini)reST.

Or __docformat__ can be set appropriately.  See:

    http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0258/#id42


  -Fred

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