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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 may be written using two standard formats, a
mildly idiomatic plaintext format and the reStructuredText format
(also, technically plaintext). These two formats are described in
PEP 9 and PEP 12 respectively. 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.