On Wed, Nov 03 2010, rustom wrote: > On Nov 3, 3:11 pm, Daniel da Silva <ddasi...@umd.edu> wrote: >> Guys, this really has nothing to do with python. > > ?? python docs have nothing to do with python?? python docs by > default on linux are read with info and many seem to find info > unpleasant to use.
Actually, the Python documentation is no longer available in info format. Which is unfortunate, as that was the documentation format that I personally preferred. > Myself an old emacs user and cant say info helps me as much as google. > However comparing info and man is also a bit strange. The printed > python docs come to several thousand pages. Do we want them to be 1 > manpage? a hundred? a thousand? I am pretty conversant with the Python documentation. I almost never need to search them. I do miss being able to read (and search) the documentation in my editor though. Jason -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
