[Zope-dev] New Help System in 2.2

Dan L. Pierson dan@sol.control.com
Tue, 6 Jun 2000 15:18:14 -0400 (EDT)


Jimmie Houchin writes:
 > I was considering at one point jumping up and writing a documentation
 > system for Python/Zope. Unfortunately my notes, not many, are at work.
 > But some things I had in mind were based on something like JavaDoc. I am
 > not a Java expert and have not really used JavaDoc much but have seen
 > some of its documentation.
 > 
 > I was thinking it would be nice to have a parser which could extract
 > documentation from source to create external documentation files which
 > could be generated into multiple formats, html, xml, etc. I would have
 > needed to create a documentation format which could be used in source
 > but extracted. I was not going to use docstrings as they are intended
 > for a different purpose and are compiled into the bytecode.

You might want to take a look at the bottom of http://www.lfw.org/python/...