"Kenneth McDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | The reading I've done so far on Python 3 (alpha announcement, meta-PEP, | some other PEPs) is generally encouraging, but there doesn't seem to be | much on cleaning up the syntax,
I believe that the syntax changes in 3.0.a0 are pretty much what will be in 3.0. | Finally, another thing I've perhaps missed, but I can't see anything in | what I've gone through, about correcting of of what I see to be one of | Python's most long-standing really serious flaws, which is the lack of | an official standard documentation markup syntax for writing | documentation in code. This isn't even a matter of getting something | developed, it's simply a matter of Guido and the Powers That Be | bestowing their benediction on one of the several adequate or better | documentation toolsets out there, so that more of us (slowly) start | using it. Eventually this will result in work on the toolset itself, | more people will be willing to use it, and there'll be a nice virtuous | circle. Except for the core language, Guido generally avoids trying to pick and impose winners (as opposed to recognizing winners). So, as far as I know, he never 'pronounced' on PEP 287. On the other hand, its author volunteered as a PEP editor and posted PEP12. And for 2.6, the doc sources have been converted, I understand, from Latex to .rst due to work led by (and mostly done by?) G. Brandl (who is still working on the toolset). So consider that a 'benediction' if you wish. tjr -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
