Python docs and enumeration of sections

Robert Kern robert.kern at gmail.com
Sat Nov 29 03:47:32 EST 2008


Kay Schluehr wrote:
> Is there a reason why enumeration of sections and subsections has been
> dropped after the switch to the Sphinx documentation tool?
> 
> It doesn't really make quoting library sections easier or do you know
> what I mean when I refer to "How It Works"?

If you hover the mouse over the area just to the right of a section title, you 
will see a paragraph mark which will be a link to the section. You can 
copy-and-paste that URL. The URL is more convenient answer than a section number.

   http://docs.python.org/library/pdb.html#how-it-works

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco




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