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Download Python 2.0.1 Documentation (22 June 2001)
To download an archive containing all the documents for this version of Python in one of various formats, follow one of links in this table. The numbers in the table are the size of the download files in Kilobytes.
| Content | Format | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| ZIP | GZip | BZip2 | |
| HTML | 1809 Kb | 983 Kb | 688 Kb |
| PDF (US-Letter) | 2180 Kb | 2183 Kb | 2131 Kb |
| PDF (A4) | 2306 Kb | 2307 Kb | 2243 Kb |
| PostScript (US-Letter) | 1249 Kb | 1250 Kb | 919 Kb |
| PostScript (A4) | 1315 Kb | 1316 Kb | 971 Kb |
| LaTeX | 1012 Kb | 853 Kb | 679 Kb |
Unpacking
Unix users should use the .tar.bz2 or .tgz archives; these are bzipped (or gzipped) tar archives and can be handled in the usual way using tar and the bzip2 or GNU gzip program. The InfoZIP unzip program can be used to handle the ZIP archives if desired. Note that the .tar.bz2 archives provide the best compression and fastest download times.
Windows users can use the ZIP archives since those are customary on that platform. These are created on Unix using the InfoZIP zip program. They may be unpacked using the free WiZ tool (from the InfoZIP developers) or the proprietary WinZip 7.0 tool. Many other tools for handling ZIP archives are available; any of them should work. WinZip can also handle the gzipped tar archives if needed, but be careful that the filenames are mangled if you download these using a Web browser.
Note that the .tar.bz2 files are smaller than the other archives; Windows users may want to install the bzip2 tools on their systems as well. Windows binaries for a command-line tool are available at The bzip2 and libbzip2 official home page. For a more typical Windows graphical application, take a look at PowerArchiver. Both tools are available for no charge.
Problems
Slow and aborted downloads: It has been reported that some versions of the MacOS IP stack stall when downloading large files. This problem only appears sporadically; if you have difficulties retrieving any of these files under MacOS, please be patient and try again later. The problems are supposed to be corrected in MacOS 9. (For more information, see Apple's Technical Note for Mac OS 9; in particular, see the third bulleted item under "Open Transport 2.5" near the end.)
If you have comments or suggestions for the Python documentation, please send email to <docs@python.org>.