[issue5893] Add support to pydoc to output .rst restructured text

2009-05-01 Thread Gregory P. Smith
New submission from Gregory P. Smith g...@krypto.org: When writing documentation for a module that is already well documented in its docstrings, I really wish pydoc could output .rst directly. It'd mean much less manual editing. -- components: Demos and Tools messages: 86866 nosy:

[issue5893] Add support to pydoc to output .rst restructured text

2009-05-01 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com added the comment: Personally I think that the Sphinx autodoc extension does a better job of this than having pydoc export .rst would. Is there some regard in which that doesn't solve your problem? -- nosy: +r.david.murray priority: normal - low

[issue5893] Add support to pydoc to output .rst restructured text

2009-05-01 Thread Gregory P. Smith
Gregory P. Smith g...@krypto.org added the comment: oh. sphinx can already do this? nevermind then. *goes off to look closer at sphinx* -- resolution: - rejected status: open - closed ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue5893] Add support to pydoc to output .rst restructured text

2009-05-01 Thread Georg Brandl
Georg Brandl ge...@python.org added the comment: I'd like to note that what Sphinx can't do -- or better, doesn't do at the moment, is to output full reStructuredText documents when using autodoc. It directly integrates the docstrings into the doctree that will become the output. So, for the