Literate programs in Python

[Mike Driscoll]

On May 13, 1:47 pm, Carl Banks <pavlovevide... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 13, 1:44 pm, Mike Driscoll <kyoso... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On May 13, 10:28 am, Paul Miller <neokos... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Does anyone know of any (preferably largish) examples of literate
> > > programs written using Python?  Alternatively, does anyone know of any
> > > literate programming tools which support Python well?  (I am aware of
> > > Leo and I've been to literateprogramming.com, but any additional
> > > pointers would be much appreciated!)
>
> > Check out Zope, bittorrent, or Editra. You should just go to
> > SourceForge and do a search for projects done in Python.
>
> Those aren't examples of literate programming AFAIK.  (Check Wikipedia
> for "literate programming" if you're still confused.)
>
> It occurs to me that one could get pretty close to literate
> programming with Pure Python (if they stick to regular function calls
> and not expect code weaving, which would need a preprocessor).  A
> fairly simple script could  parse docstrings and Python source files
> to produce a document from the source.  In fact, there are tools that
> can do that sort of thing already, but I doubt they output documents
> according to literate programming expectations.  Don't know of any
> tools specifically for literate programming.
>
> Carl Banks

Sorry...I took the OP's meaning literally...

Mike