Documentation

These pages cover the tools and coordination efforts behind Python’s official documentation. If you are looking for the actual Python docs, head to docs.python.org. What you will find here instead is information about how those docs get written, what tools are used to build them, and how the documentation team organized its work.

Documentation Overview

• Documentation — landing page with links to the official Python docs (tutorial, language reference, standard library)

• DocumentationDiscussion — historical discussion about improving Python’s documentation, including wiki-based approaches

Coordination

• DocsCoordination — coordination hub for the Python Documentation Team, including FAQs, task lists, and committer info

• DocsCoordination — subpages with detailed coordination materials

Tools

• Sphinx — the documentation generator used to build Python’s official docs from reStructuredText sources

• DocUtils — Docutils, the text processing system underlying reStructuredText

• DocumentationTools — broader survey of tools for generating documentation from Python code, covering both introspection-based and static analysis approaches