[Python-Dev] query: docstring formatting in python distutils code (original) (raw)

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Fri Jul 9 01:14:11 CEST 2010

Fred Drake wrote:

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Alexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com> wrote:

I am against mark-up in doc-strings, but this problem can be easily solved by placing a magic character at doc[0] to indicate that the rest is (mini)reST. Or docformat can be set appropriately. See: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0258/#id42 That is so Python 2 ;-)

regards Steve

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