Andrew Bennetts wrote:
The pydoc docs (what you get from help()) is built from the docstrings in the
source code, but the HTML docs are built from seperately maintained
documentation (in LaTeX format). The HTML docs are usually more in-depth and
likely to provide overviews, and I wouldn't describe them as terse, and I
usually use them as my primary reference rather than what pydoc generates.
Ah, by 'python documentation' I was refering to the pydocs via help().
I see now the http://docs.python.org/ is more english like for reading and
understanding.
I was comparing the help from help() on the module cgi from that from 'perldoc cgi'
which is very tutorial like, but still covers everything that you can do. From
perldoc cgi a beginner can write a perl cgi application, from the built in pydocs
it's more complex.
Mike
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