Documentation Development resources

• The Reporting Bugs page details instructions for non-committers how to report bugs and suggesting changes in the documentation. Documentation submissions are welcome in plain text from contributors without knowledge of the markup language used, reStructuredText.
• The mailing list docs@python.org is where volunteers triage and fix documentation issues reported in the tracker or directly to that address.
• The Documentation Special Interest Group and its mailing list doc-sig@python.org is for the discussion of documentation projects, standards, and tools, and is not limited to core Python.
• Contributors and potential contributors wishing to modify the documentation source extensively should read Documenting Python, which details the conventions and markup used in creating and maintaining the Python documentation.

Please see the FAQ for details on how to check out the Python sources, which contain the documentation in the Doc subdirectory.

Documentation for development versions

Development versions of the Python documentation are available on-line and updated daily [1]:

• SVN trunk for Python 3, for the next feature release of Python.

The non-dev versions for the current stable branches are also updated daily.

Additional Information

• The Apple Publications Style Guide is cited by Documenting Python as a good reference for general style issues in technical documentation.