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Introduction |
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Python's documentation has long been considered to be good for a free |
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programming language. There are a number of reasons for this, the most |
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important being the early commitment of Python's creator, Guido van Rossum, to |
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providing documentation on the language and its libraries, and the continuing |
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involvement of the user community in providing assistance for creating and |
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maintaining documentation. |
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The involvement of the community takes many forms, from authoring to bug reports |
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to just plain complaining when the documentation could be more complete or |
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easier to use. |
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This document is aimed at authors and potential authors of documentation for |
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Python. More specifically, it is for people contributing to the standard |
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documentation and developing additional documents using the same tools as the |
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standard documents. This guide will be less useful for authors using the Python |
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documentation tools for topics other than Python, and less useful still for |
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authors not using the tools at all. |
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If your interest is in contributing to the Python documentation, but you don't |
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have the time or inclination to learn reStructuredText and the markup structures |
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documented here, there's a welcoming place for you among the Python contributors |
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as well. Any time you feel that you can clarify existing documentation or |
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provide documentation that's missing, the existing documentation team will |
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gladly work with you to integrate your text, dealing with the markup for you. |
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Please don't let the material in this document stand between the documentation |
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and your desire to help out! |