Currently, cgitb documents the hook (enable) and somewhat unclearly the ability to dump the HTML traceback to stdout, but despite that being technically available it does not document the ability to dump the traceback to a string as either text or html.

Possible further improvement: make ``cgitb.html`` and ``cgitb.text`` implicitly call `sys.exc_info()` if not given a parameter (much like `cgitb.handler` does).

PR targetted to master rather than 2.7

New changeset c07b3a15be5e0a68a73b4c532861ed8de6932bd2 by Berker Peksag (masklinn) in branch 'master':
bpo-29920: Document cgitb.text() and cgitb.html() functions (GH-849)
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/c07b3a15be5e0a68a73b4c532861ed8de6932bd2

The main functions of the cgitb module are enable() and handler(). I would describe them first, and text() and html() at the end (maybe in separate subsection). Actually the main part of the descriptions of text() and html() can be shared and placed in a paragraph preceding them: "The following two functions handle..."

Note that the documented name of the first parameter is "info", but actual name is "einfo".

Should I close this since the PR was merged?

I suggest to move the descriptions of text() and html() after handle(). And I don't know what to do with the discrepancy in the parameter name.

Please don't close it yet. I agree with Serhiy's comments in msg293394, but I couldn't find time to address his comments yet (plus we still need to backport the documentation update to 3.5 and 3.6 branches)

Closing as the backport to 3.5/3.6 is no longer relevant and also cgitb is deprecated under 594.