Re: [Python-Dev] Python Library Reference top page too long

2006-03-18 Thread Aahz
On Fri, Mar 17, 2006, Georg Brandl wrote: Greg Ewing wrote: Russell E. Owen wrote: Another thing that would be *really* useful is to list the actual built-in types with the category. For example: Sequence Types (str, unicode, list, tuple, buffer, xrange) Mapping Types (dict) +1 If I

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Library Reference top page too long

2006-03-17 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Georg Brandl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another thing that would be *really* useful is to list the actual built-in types with the category. For example: Sequence Types (str, unicode, list, tuple, buffer, xrange) Mapping Types (dict) +1 If I understand

[Python-Dev] Python Library Reference top page too long

2006-03-16 Thread Edward C. Jones
The contents page for the Python Library Reference (http://docs.python.org/dev/lib/lib.html;) has become much too long. I suggest that it should be designed like the top page for portal web sites. For example see http://www.dmoz.org/;. I suggest that lib.html be replaced by lib_index.html and

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Library Reference top page too long

2006-03-16 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Edward C. Jones wrote: The contents page for the Python Library Reference (http://docs.python.org/dev/lib/lib.html;) has become much too long. I disagree. It serves my purposes very well: I usually search in the page for a keywork I think should be there. If the page was broken into multiple

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Library Reference top page too long

2006-03-16 Thread Edward Loper
Martin v. Löwis wrote: Edward C. Jones wrote: The contents page for the Python Library Reference (http://docs.python.org/dev/lib/lib.html;) has become much too long. I disagree. It serves my purposes very well: I usually search in the page for a keywork I think should be there. If the page

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Library Reference top page too long

2006-03-16 Thread Greg Ewing
Russell E. Owen wrote: Fundamentally I think what's wanted is: - Another level of sub-TOCs, e.g. one for Sequence Types, Mapping Types, etc. Every page that has sub-topics or intimately related should have a list of them at the beginning. - The special methods for a given type of class

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Library Reference top page too long

2006-03-16 Thread Georg Brandl
Greg Ewing wrote: Russell E. Owen wrote: Fundamentally I think what's wanted is: - Another level of sub-TOCs, e.g. one for Sequence Types, Mapping Types, etc. Every page that has sub-topics or intimately related should have a list of them at the beginning. - The special methods for a