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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2000-09-08 21:53:22 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2000-09-08 21:53:22 (GMT)
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Add a general "About" page and link to it from the index page.
This fixes SourceForge bug #113810.
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+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
+<html>
+ <head>
+ <title>About the Python Documentation</title>
+ <meta name="description"
+ content="Overview information about the Python documentation">
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
+ <link rel="STYLESHEET" href="lib/lib.css">
+ </head>
+ <body bgcolor=white>
+ <div class="navigation">
+ <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2">
+ <tr>
+ <td><img width="32" height="32" align="bottom" border="0" alt=""
+ src="icons/blank.gif"></td>
+ <td><a href="./"
+ title="Python Documentation Index"><img width="32" height="32"
+ align="bottom" border="0" alt="up"
+ src="icons/up.gif"></a></td>
+ <td><img width="32" height="32" align="bottom" border="0" alt=""
+ src="icons/blank.gif"></td>
+ <td align="center" bgcolor="#99CCFF" width="100%">
+ <b class="title">About the Python Documentation</b></td>
+ <td><img width="32" height="32" align="bottom" border="0" alt=""
+ src="icons/blank.gif"></td>
+ <td><img width="32" height="32" align="bottom" border="0" alt=""
+ src="icons/blank.gif"></td>
+ <td><img width="32" height="32" align="bottom" border="0" alt=""
+ src="icons/blank.gif"></td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <b class="navlabel">Up:</b>
+ <span class="sectref">
+ <a href="./" title="Python Documentation Index">
+ Python Documentation Index</A></span>
+ <br>
+ </div>
+ <hr>
+
+ <h2>About the Python Documentation</h2>
+
+ <p>The Python documentation was originally written by Guido van
+ Rossum, but has increasingly become a community effort over the
+ past several years. This growing collection of documents is
+ available in several formats, including typeset versions in PDF
+ and PostScript for printing, from the <a
+ href="http://www.python.org/">Python Web site</a>.
+
+ <h2>Comments and Questions</h2>
+
+ <p> General comments and questions regarding this document should
+ be sent by email to <a href="mailto:python-docs@python.org"
+ >python-docs@python.org</a>. If you find specific errors in
+ this document, please report the bug at the <a
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=5470">Python Bug
+ Tracker</a> at <a href="http://sourceforge.net/">SourceForge</a>.
+ </p>
+
+ <p> Questions regarding how to use the information in this
+ document should be sent to the Python news group, <a
+ href="news:comp.lang.python">comp.lang.python</a>, or the <a
+ href="http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list"
+ >Python mailing list</a> (which is gated to the newsgroup and
+ carries the same content).
+ </p>
+
+ <p> For any of these channels, please be sure not to send HTML email.
+ Thanks.
+ </p>
+
+ <hr>
+ </body>
+</html>
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</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
+ <p>
+ <address>
+ <hr>
+ See <i><a href="about.html">About the Python Documentation</a></i>
+ for information on suggesting changes.
+ </address>
</body>
</html>