[Grant Harris]
I'm working on a web site (http://www.webdocs.org) that hosts the current and older releases of the official Python documentation, along with some other Python-related docs.
Cool!
I currently have Python documentation from as far back as version 1.4 on the site, but nothing older.
I just did a Google search on "Python 1.3" and one of the top hits was www.umich.edu/~archive/atari/Mint/Python/ from which you can get Python-1.3-docs.tar.gz It matches my memory: it's a bunch of .tex files, along with a makefile and assorted scripts to generate other formats. http://ftp.fcaglp.unlp.edu.ar/pub/python/src/ appears to have a tarball for Python 1.2 too.
If possible, I'd like to include as many releases of the Python documentation as I can find (if not all of them). However, I can't seem to find anything prior to Python 1.4. (I did happen to find some tex files for a couple older versions, but no html files.)
HTML was new-fangled stuff back then; Guido didn't have time to generate all possible formats, unlike Fred today, who does nothing else <wink>.
Also, I'm relatively new to Python (less than a year), so I don't even know which older versions were officially released. For instance, I know that there was a version 1.3 and a 1.2 released, but was there ever a version 1.2.1 or 1.3.1?
No. You can extract a list of all historic releases from the file Misc/HISTORY in the current Python source distribution.
My guess is that no one today would even care about documentation from that far back. But personally I think it's cool to be able to see how Python has evolved over the years.
If you go back far enough, Guido used to maintain the docs in FrameMaker. Good luck <wink>.