On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Georg Brandl <g.bra...@gmx.net> wrote: > Problem is, in the case of help() we have no way of knowing whether the > given __doc__ string is supposed to be (mini)reST. Of course, reverting > to showing the plain content on parsing errors is one possibility, but > I can still imagine instances where something is successfully interpreted > as reST, but intended to be read and understood verbatim by the author.
The docstring processing PEP provides for this: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0258/#id42 -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at gmail.com> "A storm broke loose in my mind." --Albert Einstein _______________________________________________ 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