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good style guides for python-style documentation ?

(reposted from doc-sig, which seems to be mostly dead
these days).

over at the pytut wiki, "carndt" asked:

Are there any guidelines about conventions concerning
punctuation, text styles and language style (e.g. how
to address the reader)?

any suggestions from this list ?

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Apr 6 '06 #1
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> (reposted from doc-sig, which seems to be mostly dead
these days).

over at the pytut wiki, "carndt" asked:

Are there any guidelines about conventions concerning
punctuation, text styles and language style (e.g. how
to address the reader)?

any suggestions from this list ?

</F>


Well there's:

PEP 8 -- Style Guide for Python Code
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
But I presume you already know that one. It covers doc strings some,
but not general documentation. A how-to on documenting would be nice.

Cheers,
Ron
Apr 6 '06 #2
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
(reposted from doc-sig, which seems to be mostly dead
these days).

over at the pytut wiki, "carndt" asked:

Are there any guidelines about conventions concerning
punctuation, text styles and language style (e.g. how
to address the reader)?

any suggestions from this list ?


Just for fun one day, I extracted what I thought were the main points
from the PEP and made a website for it:

http://www.johnjsal.devisland.net/styleguide.html
Apr 6 '06 #3
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
(reposted from doc-sig, which seems to be mostly dead
these days).

over at the pytut wiki, "carndt" asked:

Are there any guidelines about conventions concerning
punctuation, text styles and language style (e.g. how
to address the reader)?

any suggestions from this list ?

</F>


Documenting Python http://docs.python.org/dev/doc/style-guide.html
recommends Apple Publications Style Guide:
http://developer.apple.com/reference...fund-date.html

GNOME Documentation Style Guide is also quite useful:
http://developer.gnome.org/documents/style-guide/ .

Ziga

Apr 6 '06 #4

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
(reposted from doc-sig, which seems to be mostly dead
these days).

over at the pytut wiki, "carndt" asked:

Are there any guidelines about conventions concerning
punctuation, text styles and language style (e.g. how
to address the reader)?

any suggestions from this list ?

</F>

Hi
You can read the document given in link:
Documenting Python http://docs.python.org/dev/doc/style-guide.html
Bye

Apr 7 '06 #5

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