Do you feel bad because of the Python docs?

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Feb 27 04:47:41 EST 2013


On 26/02/2013 12:54, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> One week ago, "JoePie91" wrote a blog post challenging the Python
> community and the state of Python documentation, titled:
>
> "The Python documentation is bad, and you should feel bad".
>
> http://joepie91.wordpress.com/2013/02/19/the-python-documentation-is-bad-
> and-you-should-feel-bad/
>
> It is valuable to contrast and compare the PHP and Python docs:
>
> http://php.net/manual/en/index.php
> http://www.python.org/doc/
>
> There's no doubt that one of PHP's strengths, perhaps its biggest
> strength, is the good state of documentation. But should we feel bad
> about Python's docs? I don't think that either the Python documentation
> or community is as bad as JoePie91 suggests. (Well, I won't speak for the
> people on Freenode's #python. It took me approximately three minutes to
> be banned from there, with no warning or explanation.)
>
> Another response to the blog post, by one of the core developers:
>
> http://blog.briancurtin.com/posts/why-i-dont-feel-so-bad.html
>

Not really when we've got world leading experts to help us out 
http://xahlee.info/perl-python/python_doc.html :) * sys.maxint

-- 
Cheers.

Mark Lawrence




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