python-peps/README.rst

Python Enhancement Proposals
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The PEPs in this repo are published automatically on the web at
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/.  To learn more about the purpose of
PEPs and how to go about writing a PEP, please start reading at PEP 1
(``pep-0001.txt`` in this repo).  Note that PEP 0, the index PEP, is
now automatically generated, and not committed to the repo.


reStructuredText for PEPs
=========================

Original PEP source should be written in reStructuredText format,
which is a constrained version of plaintext, and is described in 
PEP 12.  Older PEPs were often written in a more mildly restricted
plaintext format, as described in PEP 9.  The ``pep2html.py`` 
processing and installation script knows how to produce the HTML 
for either PEP format.

For processing reStructuredText format PEPs, you need the docutils
package, which is available from `PyPI <http://pypi.python.org>`_.
If you have pip, ``pip install docutils`` should install it.


Generating HTML
===============

Do not commit changes with bad formatting.  To check the formatting of
a PEP, use the Makefile.  In particular, to generate HTML for PEP 999,
your source code should be in ``pep-0999.txt`` and the HTML will be
generated to ``pep-0999.html`` by the command ``make pep-0999.html``.
The default Make target generates HTML for all PEPs.  If you don't have
Make, use the ``pep2html.py`` script.