about these documents these documents are generated from restructuredtext sources by sphinxa document processor specifically written for the python documentation development of the documentation and its toolchain is an entirely volunteer effortjust like python itself if you want to contributeplease take look at the reporting-bugs page for information on how to do so new volunteers are always welcomemany thanks go tofred drakejr the creator of the original python documentation toolset and writer of much of the contentthe docutils project for creating restructuredtext and the docutils suitefredrik lundh for his alternative python reference project from which sphinx got many good ideas contributors to the python documentation many people have contributed to the python languagethe python standard libraryand the python documentation see misc/acks in the python source distribution for partial list of contributors it is only with the input and contributions of the python community that python has such wonderful documentation thank you