ANN: Docpicture 0.2

nopsidy nopsidy at gmail.com
Sun Nov 2 22:51:31 EST 2008


André wrote:
> Docpicture 0.2 has been released.  You can download it from
> http://code.google.com/p/docpicture/
> 
> Docpicture's goal is to enable embedding pictures inside Python
> docstrings using some custom domain specific language (dsl).
> docpicture includes a plugin architecture enabling users to extend it
> by adding new dsl parsers.  Docpicture behaves as an enhanced help()
> for Python.  It requires a default browser capable of displaying svg
> images (e.g. Firefox 3)
> 
> =======================
> This version of docpicture can display the following type of images:
> 
> 1. turtles (!)
> 2. images downloaded from the web (in any format)
> 3. Mathematical equations  (requires matplotlib)
> 4. UML sequence diagrams (require a live internet connection)
> 5. Full matplotlib plots.
> 
> This is very much a proof-of-concept version.  Comments and
> suggestions are most welcome.  Code contributions [for other types of
> images] even more so. ;-)
> 
> André Roberge

I've looked thru some of the project code. It's good stuff. Thanks -nop



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