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Re: Proposal to extend PEP 257 (New Documentation String Spec)

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Date 2011-07-15 17:13 +1000
Subject Re: Proposal to extend PEP 257 (New Documentation String Spec)
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.1048.1310714025.1164.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 9:02 AM, rantingrick <rantingrick@gmail.com> wrote:
> Too many folks
> are refusing to document properly and so i will take this time to
> hammer out a spec.

The tighter you squeeze your fist, Lord Rick, the more star
programmers will slip through your fingers.

Make it so docstrings HAVE to be in a particular format, and people
will stop writing docstrings. Make it so Python functions HAVE to have
docstrings, and people will stop writing Python functions.

ChrisA

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Proposal to extend PEP 257 (New Documentation String Spec) rantingrick <rantingrick@gmail.com> - 2011-07-14 16:02 -0700
  Re: Proposal to extend PEP 257 (New Documentation String Spec) Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-07-15 10:24 +1000
  Re: Proposal to extend PEP 257 (New Documentation String Spec) Michael Hrivnak <mhrivnak@hrivnak.org> - 2011-07-15 02:00 -0400
  Re: Proposal to extend PEP 257 (New Documentation String Spec) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-07-15 17:13 +1000
    Re: Proposal to extend PEP 257 (New Documentation String Spec) rantingrick <rantingrick@gmail.com> - 2011-07-15 11:56 -0700
      Re: Proposal to extend PEP 257 (New Documentation String Spec) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-07-16 09:16 +1000
        Re: Proposal to extend PEP 257 (New Documentation String Spec) rantingrick <rantingrick@gmail.com> - 2011-07-16 08:32 -0700
          Re: Proposal to extend PEP 257 (New Documentation String Spec) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-07-17 02:25 +1000
          Re: Proposal to extend PEP 257 (New Documentation String Spec) Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2011-07-16 18:03 -0500
            Re: Proposal to extend PEP 257 (New Documentation String Spec) rantingrick <rantingrick@gmail.com> - 2011-07-16 16:25 -0700
              Re: Proposal to extend PEP 257 (New Documentation String Spec) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-07-17 09:45 +1000
          Re: Proposal to extend PEP 257 (New Documentation String Spec) Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2011-07-16 18:44 -0500
      Re: Proposal to extend PEP 257 (New Documentation String Spec) Michael Hrivnak <mhrivnak@hrivnak.org> - 2011-07-16 15:23 -0400
        Re: Proposal to extend PEP 257 (New Documentation String Spec) Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-07-17 13:10 +1000
          Re: Proposal to extend PEP 257 (New Documentation String Spec) Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2011-07-17 06:11 -0500
            Re: Proposal to extend PEP 257 (New Documentation String Spec) rantingrick <rantingrick@gmail.com> - 2011-07-17 10:30 -0700
      Re: Proposal to extend PEP 257 (New Documentation String Spec) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-07-17 09:09 +1000
  Re: Proposal to extend PEP 257 (New Documentation String Spec) George Rodrigues da Cunha Silva <georger.silva@gmail.com> - 2011-07-15 12:44 -0300

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