Documentation Development

Documentation submissions are welcome in plain text from contributors without LaTeX knowledge. Python documentation is developed in much the same way as the interpreter itself. It is a community effort, and bugs and patches should be submitted through the Python trackers at SourceForge.

Python committers: if you handle a submission that contains documentation in plain text or ReST, feel free to assign it to one of the following people for LaTeXification:

Fred Drake (fdrake on SourceForge)
Skip Montanaro (montanaro on SourceForge)
Michael Hudson (mwh on SourceForge)
Neal Norwitz (nnorwitz on SourceForge)

Development versions of the Python documentation are available on-line:

Style test, a new layout for the top/bottom navigation bars.
SVN trunk, for the next feature release of Python.
Python 2.4 maintenance (HTML tarball).

Contributors and potential contributors wishing to modify the documentation source themselves should read Documenting Python, which details the conventions and markup used in creating and maintaining the Python documentation. The SVN trunk version is the recommended version for contributors, regardless of which Python branch is being modified.

Additional Information

The Browser ID Support Test is a test page for browser support of the id attribute on arbitrary elements. This is another impromptu survey conducted on the Python Documentation SIG.
Math Entities and Real Browsers shows the results of an impromptu survey conducted on the Python Documentation SIG.
The Apple Publications Style Guide is cited by Documenting Python as a good reference for general style issues in technical documentation.