Re: Python Documentation (should be better?)

Hi All--

John Bokma wrote:
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> Ivan Van Laningham wrote:
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> > Python docs are not as good as PHP docs.
>
> Oh my. I hope you are just making that up. PHP documentation is
> guesstimated on how PHP works on average. Add the online comments clutter
> and you probably are better off reading the source.
>

I didn't write that; I was riffing on Christopher's contention that
Python's docs ought to be awesome, which I think ought to be true.

Metta,
Ivan
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