AW: [Zope] Difference between Pydoc and DocFinder

[Dieter Maurer]

Damir Bartakovic writes:
 > Ok, thanks for your precise description. I think I understand it, almost ...
 > Since I am new to Python, just a little thing.
 > >  While "DocFinder" looks for documentation strings, "pydoc" looks
 > >  for documentation comments (preceeding the object).
 > 
 > With documentation string you ment the __doc__ attribute ?
Yes.
 > ....
 > And a documentation comment looks like """ this is a comment """ or?
That a documentation string (going into __doc__), if it is
the first statement in an object (module, class or function).

A documentation comment is a comment (a block of lines starting
with '#') usually preceeding an object.


Dieter