On Sunday 09 December 2001 17:45, Chuck Esterbrook wrote:
> On Sunday 09 December 2001 02:54 pm, Tavis Rudd wrote:
> > 1) require the first LINE (not parag.) to be a synopsis of the
> > method.
>
> Won't this violate the margin? eg, my first line descriptions will
> sometimes exceed column 79.

I thought that at first, but in most cases I've been able to keep it 
under that.  But come to think about it, a wrapped sentence followed 
by a blank line would be ok as well. The convention is to allow 
documentation tools to extract a single sentence synopsis. All they 
have to do is search for a blank line.  

> Is there a special reason to break after the first sentence? I know
> pydoc will treat the first sentence/paragraph/whatever of a class
> doc string special, but does this apply to methods as well?

Pydoc doesn't use this yet, but future tools coming out of doc-sig 
will.

> Well, at least we agree on most things for change.  :-)

:)

> I played with Alt-q in emacs. is that an emacs thing a python mode
> binding thing? I'm wondering if we can get it to break on """ as
> well newlines....

I'm not sure.  Alt-q is global to emacs, but it might be overriden in 
python mode.  I don't think it's worth hacking with though.  There's 
more important things to do.

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