Hi Bináris,

Any documentation work always makes me happy :-) I don't completely
understand your proposal however - would the script generate a page
like [1] for wikipedia.py?

Merlijn

[1] 
http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szerkeszt%C5%91:Bin%C3%A1ris/Fixes_and_functions_HOWTO

On 13 March 2013 11:38, Bináris <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi gurus,
>
> I have suffered for a long time because I have quite a lot of fixes and I
> can hardly find my way in this jungle and keep a logical order and find old
> ones.
> So I decided to write a script that creates a table of contents int
> fixes.py/user-fixes.py.
>
> Then I thought it should also list main-level variables and functions
> (Python is very good at dissolving main-level things from others :-)). As I
> already wrote earlier, I use several own functions for my fixes ([1]). And
> also header lines of some predefined format. All this script needs a place
> to insert the TOC which should be a predefined constant line, e.g.
> # *** CONTENTS *** #
> (If the script finds the corresponding END CONTENTS line, it clears the
> previous TOC from between these two.)
>
> But then I realized that enhanced with classes this would be useful for any
> kind of scripts without extra work. For example in wikipedia.py which is now
> long, long, and hard to overview.
> Of course, there would be a possibility to leave some kind of data (e.g. "no
> variables please, only functiions and classes"), and two approaches for
> ordering (everything in original order, or fisrt the variables, then
> functions, then fixes...).
> Unfortunately, in some rare cases the length of a line may excced the 80
> characters, which may cause PEP8 and/or Xqt beiing sad. :-)
>
> How does this concept sound?
>
> I will anyhow write it for my own purposes. It is just about community use
> for complicated scripts such as fixes.py or wikipedia.py.
>
> [1]
> http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szerkeszt%C5%91:Bin%C3%A1ris/Fixes_and_functions_HOWTO
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