[Python-Dev] PEP 287: reStructuredText Standard Docstring Format (original) (raw)

Tom Emerson tree@basistech.com
Wed, 3 Apr 2002 19🔞40 -0500

Jeremy Hylton writes:

I believe that reST is a good structured text design, and I think it would be good to use it, e.g., to replace Zope's StructuredText.

Why does the community need a new structured text design? What is wrong with existing markup methodologies? The PEP didn't answer these with any cogent examples, IMHO.

The only rationale that I saw was existing use: the people that already make use of it find it natural, and everyone else has to learn it.

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