[Python-Dev] Switching dev docs URL to Py3k?

2010-07-10 Thread Nick Coghlan
With the trunk closed to new development, should we switch http://docs.python.org/dev/ to show the docs built from the Py3k branch? (The in-development Py3k docs are currently at dev/py3k/) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan   |   ncogh...@gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia

Re: [Python-Dev] Switching dev docs URL to Py3k?

2010-07-10 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 18:04:32 +1000 Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: With the trunk closed to new development, should we switch http://docs.python.org/dev/ to show the docs built from the Py3k branch? Well, that page already says “Python v3.2a0 documentation” to me. cheers Antoine.

Re: [Python-Dev] Switching dev docs URL to Py3k?

2010-07-10 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net wrote: On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 18:04:32 +1000 Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: With the trunk closed to new development, should we switch http://docs.python.org/dev/ to show the docs built from the Py3k branch? Well,

Re: [Python-Dev] Switching dev docs URL to Py3k?

2010-07-10 Thread Georg Brandl
Am 10.07.2010 10:32, schrieb Nick Coghlan: On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net wrote: On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 18:04:32 +1000 Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: With the trunk closed to new development, should we switch http://docs.python.org/dev/ to show the

Re: [Python-Dev] query: docstring formatting in python distutils code

2010-07-10 Thread Ron Adam
On 07/07/2010 12:30 PM, Georg Brandl wrote: Am 07.07.2010 18:09, schrieb Michael Foord: I would say that the major use of docstrings is for interactive help - so interactive readability should be *the most important* (but perhaps not only) factor when considering how to format standard

[Python-Dev] Removing IDLE from the standard library

2010-07-10 Thread Tal Einat
Hello, I would like to propose removing IDLE from the standard library. I have been using IDLE since 2002 and have been doing my best to help maintain and further develop IDLE since 2005. In recent years IDLE has received negligible interest and attention from the Python community. During this

Re: [Python-Dev] Removing IDLE from the standard library

2010-07-10 Thread Terry Reedy
On 7/10/2010 7:05 PM, Tal Einat wrote: Hello, I would like to propose removing IDLE from the standard library. -1 I use it daily. On Windows, it works better in many ways than the awful interactive command window, which I almost never use. I would rather the latter be replaced. I have

Re: [Python-Dev] Removing IDLE from the standard library

2010-07-10 Thread Miki Tebeka
Hello Tal, I would like to propose removing IDLE from the standard library. -1. One of the biggest selling points for me when switching to python was the out of the box working IDE with REPL, syntax highliting and a debugger. The only other candidate I think of to replace IDLE might be IPython.

Re: [Python-Dev] Can ftp url start with file:// ?

2010-07-10 Thread Senthil Kumaran
On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 02:32:04PM -0400, Fred Drake wrote: FTP access also more often reflected the actual file hierarchy of the machine, so trying that path as a system path is more likely to work that I'd expect to see for HTTP. I see the reason. But I doubt if this is a reliable approach.

Re: [Python-Dev] Removing IDLE from the standard library

2010-07-10 Thread Guilherme Polo
2010/7/10 Miki Tebeka miki.teb...@gmail.com: Hello Tal, I would like to propose removing IDLE from the standard library. -1. One of the biggest selling points for me when switching to python was the out of the box working IDE with REPL, syntax highliting and a debugger. The only other

Re: [Python-Dev] Removing IDLE from the standard library

2010-07-10 Thread Raymond Hettinger
On Jul 10, 2010, at 9:23 PM, Guilherme Polo wrote: 2010/7/10 Miki Tebeka miki.teb...@gmail.com: Hello Tal, I would like to propose removing IDLE from the standard library. -1. -1 from me too. IDLE is the tool I almost always used to introduce people to Python. FWIW, I've run in on a Mac