On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 6:27 PM Raymond Hettinger <report@bugs.python.org>
wrote:

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> Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger@gmail.com> added the comment:
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> I've found the HTML to be useful (-w mode, not running a server) for
> generating quick documentation (much lighter weight commitment than using
> sphinx).  I show this in my intro classes and the engineers are usually
> impressed with it.
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> This is really easy and requires neither configuration files or reST
> markup:
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>     $ python -m pydoc -w statistics
>     wrote statistics.html
>
> So, my vote it to keep it.
>
> I would still like modern HTML 5 with CSS however.
>

I submitted code to do this in January 2015 on the bug tracker but, except
for some interest by a single person, my submission was essentially
ignored.  I do not claim it is perfect, but I thought it was a significant
improvement as it did use HTML 5 with CSS.

André Roberge

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