On 9/29/06, A.M. Kuchling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 09:49:35AM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > What is lost according to him is information about how the elements of > > a module work together. The docstrings tend to be narrowly focused on > > the particular function or variable, and too often discuss > > implementation details. > > I agree with this, and am not very interested in tools such as epydoc > for this reason. In such autogenerated documentation, you wind up > with a list of every single class and function, and both trivial and > important classes are given exactly the same emphasis. Such docs are > useful as a reference when you know what class you need to look at, > but then pydoc also works well for that purpose.
Right. BTW isn't xah a well-known troll? (There are exactly 666 Google hits for the query ``xah troll'' -- draw your own conclusions. :-) -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
