Aw: Re: Aw: python.org back up ?(was Re: python.org is down?)

[Ned Deily]

In article <j0k8er$itl$1 at dough.gmane.org>,
 Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> The windows distribution comes with the docs bundled in a windows help 
> file, updated with each bug fix release. Is there really no *nix 
> equivalent that could be used or is this one area where windows really wins?

Most *nix distributions provide an optional doc package for each of the 
Python versions they support, for instance, in Debian:

$ aptitude search 'python[23].*-doc$'
p   python2.6-doc  
p   python2.7-doc 
p   python3-doc 
p   python3.1-doc
p   python3.2-doc 

Also each python.org Mac OS X installers includes a copy of the 
documentation for its version, in HTML format the same as the on-line 
versions.  The docs are easily accessible through a menu item in each 
version of IDLE.  And recent versions of the installer also include a 
clickable link to the docs in each /Applications/Python x.y folder.

One advantage of the on-line versions is that they are updated daily 
with the latest fixes to the documentation.

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org