[issue5893] Add support to pydoc to output .rst restructured text

Georg Brandl added the comment: I'd like to note that what Sphinx can't do -- or better, doesn't do at the moment, is to output full reStructuredText documents when using autodoc. It directly integrates the docstrings into the doctree that will become the output. So, for the Python documentati

[issue5893] Add support to pydoc to output .rst restructured text

Gregory P. Smith added the comment: oh. sphinx can already do this? nevermind then. *goes off to look closer at sphinx* -- resolution: -> rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker __

[issue5893] Add support to pydoc to output .rst restructured text

R. David Murray added the comment: Personally I think that the Sphinx autodoc extension does a better job of this than having pydoc export .rst would. Is there some regard in which that doesn't solve your problem? -- nosy: +r.david.murray priority: normal -> low __

[issue5893] Add support to pydoc to output .rst restructured text

New submission from Gregory P. Smith : When writing documentation for a module that is already well documented in its docstrings, I really wish pydoc could output .rst directly. It'd mean much less manual editing. -- components: Demos and Tools messages: 86866 nosy: gregory.p.smith prio