On 1/23/2015 7:15 PM, R. David Murray wrote:
On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 15:55:29 -0800, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote:
This adds entries to the index of the document -- similar to the index at
the end of a book. I think single vs. double refers to different types of
entries. Check out this page: https://docs.python.org/3/genindex.html
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
Can somebody please explain this?
.. index::
single: formatting, string (%)
single: interpolation, string (%)
single: string; formatting
single: string; interpolation
single: printf-style formatting
single: sprintf-style formatting
single: % formatting
single: % interpolation
Specifically, what does index mean? What does single vs double vs triple
mean? Is there a reference somewhere I can read?
It is explained in the Sphinx documentation:
http://sphinx-doc.org/contents.html
Specifically:
http://sphinx-doc.org/markup/misc.html#directive-index
The devguide has a cpython doc oriented intro to .rst that includes
https://docs.python.org/devguide/documenting.html#index-generating-markup
--
Terry Jan Reedy
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