Download Python 2.0 Documentation (16 October 2000)

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.

Due to wide-spread requests to keep the BZip2 format archives available, archives in that format will continue to be available in future releases, even though we previously announced that it would no longer be supported.

Unpacking

Unix users should use the .tar.bz2 archives; these are gzipped tar archives and can be handled in the usual way using tar and the bzip2 program. If bzip2 is not available, the .tgz archives can be unpacked using tar and GNU gzip. The InfoZIP unzip program can be used to handle the ZIP archives if desired.

Windows users should 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.

Macintosh users can unpack the .tar.bz2 files using Alladin's StuffIt Expander.

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>.