PYTHON IS CRAP

[Moshe Zadka]

On 16 Aug 2000, David Bolen wrote:

> "Alex Martelli" <alex at magenta.com> writes:
> 
> > I think that one of the many forms Python docs are available in
> > is plain text -- and if not, lynx or other tools can easily turn the
> > HMTL into plaintext for you.  Then you can keep the .txt file
> > open in Emacs, VIM, or whatever, and textsearch at leisure.
> 
> Yeah, but that's still less convenient than just do something like:
> 
> 	> pyman string.split
> 
> (e.g., a direct lookup on precisely the API entry you are interested
> in, in just the way it gets used by the application)

Of course you're right. It would be convinient. It's just that currently,
the Python documentation is ill-suited for these kinds of things. The
doc-sig, led by Fred Drake, is trying to solve this problem. Hopefully,
now that Fred is working full time on Python, he'll have enough time
to complete it when 2.0 is finally released.

If you consider helping on this, please join the doc-sig (see the sig
area on www.python.org).
--
Moshe Zadka <moshez at math.huji.ac.il>
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