On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 18:07:22 +0100, Christian Tismer <tis...@stackless.com> wrote: > I think before getting people to work through long and > complete documentation, it is probably easier to wake their interest > by something like > "Hey, are you doing things this way?" > And then there is a short, concise list of bad and good things, maybe > even dynamic as in WingWare's "Wing Tips" or any better approach. > > From that easily reachable, only a few pages long tabular > collection of short hints and caveats there could be linkage to the > existing, real > documentation that explains things in more detail. > Maybe that could be a way to get people to actually read.
There used to be a HOWTO with this goal, but its opinions were considered outdated and/or contentious, and it was deleted: http://docs.python.org/2.6/howto/doanddont.html --David _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com