Python Documentation Tools

The Python Documentation Tools are the tools which will be used to format the standard Python documentation (starting with Python 2.4). They will be packaged so that it will be easier for others to make use of the tools without the Python documentation source distribution.

Goals

1. Separate the LaTeX-based tools from the Python documentation sources.
2. Support for the generation of machine-usable index data for documents and document collections.
3. Produce valid XHTML files as output.
4. Remove all Perl code from the toolchain.

Status

The tools have been under development as part of the Python project (see the Doc/ directory in the Python source distribution), but have not been cleanly organized as a separate package from the Python documentation.

Links

• Project Page on SourceForge, where you can find links to the issue tracker, CVS repository, and mailing list.
• Installation directory layout for the Python Documentation Tools.
• Python Documentation Central, where you can find the standard documentation for Python (and links to much more!), which is all processed using the original version of these tools.