@Bob Cline: you are correct. However, improvements to modules in the standard library would almost certainly not be accepted for Python 2.x - For this reason, any work I do is (implicitly) focused on Python 3.
8:34 AM
Pydoc is great - no make that fantastic. However, I was never fond of the look of help pages displayed when pydoc is used in webserver mode. Pydoc uses hard-coded styling options (including font and colors) based on deprecated html 4 syntax.
I decided to see if I could make it more customizable and, after a half-day coding sprint, I offer you mod_pydoc, which is somewhat more easily customizable using css. The new version has a simplified styling as default.
mod_pydoc is only available from github (for now); I'm hoping that people with better designing skills will contribute some code to make the output look better than my feeble attempt. Eventually, my intention would be to file a feature request to python.org and submit it as a possible improvement on the current module.
posted by André Roberge at 4:20 PM on Jan 28, 2015
"Scratching an itch: improving pydoc"
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You might mention that your version doesn't work with Python 2.x (unless I'm missing something).
5:31 PM
@Bob Cline: you are correct. However, improvements to modules in the standard library would almost certainly not be accepted for Python 2.x - For this reason, any work I do is (implicitly) focused on Python 3.
8:34 AM