Jeffrey P Shell: PythonPython related programming topicsreStructuredText First Impressions- October 31, 2002 Today I started writing up user documentation for the project I'm wrapping up. It's the first time I've used reStructuredText, and I must say that I'm liking it. As far as structured text markup languages go, it's pretty comprehensive and not too obtrusive. It's definitely good enough for most technical documentation needs, and is in fact a PEP Formatting Standard (see also PEP 12 Source). Other items of interest, particularly to Python programmers, are: PEP 256 "Docstring Processing...http://radio.weblogs.com/0106123/categories/python/2002/10/30.html#a228 Looking ahead to Python 2.3- October 8, 2002 I was trying to ascertain the state of "Python" 2.3 today, and PEP 283 offered up an interesting list of what is already in for 2.3, and a fairly long list of "planned features". What's in Two new types - booleans and sets!. A fundamental datetime type or interface may make the release as well. A planned possible feature is an Iterator Tools module featuring "goodies from SML and Haskell". I've been using Python for over six years now (it's hard to believe it's been that long!), and it's...http://radio.weblogs.com/0106123/categories/python/2002/10/08.html#a215 |