PEP 287: reStructuredText Standard Docstring Format

[Andreas Jung]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Jones" <rjones at ekit-inc.com>
To: "Quinn Dunkan" <quinn at hurl.ugcs.caltech.edu>; <python-list at python.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 18:38
Subject: Re: PEP 287: reStructuredText Standard Docstring Format


> On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 07:29, Quinn Dunkan wrote:
> > On Wed, 03 Apr 2002 16:00:42 GMT, Terry Reedy <tejarex at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >Just curious: are you willing to (consider, at least) switching to
> > >ReST, or are we going to end up with two similar standards used by
> > >different parts of the Python community?  IE, do Goodger's arguments
> > >about why the differences from ST are improvements cut any ice with
> > >you?
> >
> > I'm not speaking for Max, but my answer is "no."
>
> I'm all for it, and I hope the ZC guys are too. If they don't I'll just
have
> to write my own Zope product that wraps the ReST implementation. It's just
> too much of an improvement over the StructuredTexTNG implementation to
ignore.


Backward compatibilty is a major issue for inclusion into Zope. I still have
not
figured how to use it. Are there generators for HTML available yet?

-aj