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authorStan Ulbrych <89152624+StanFromIreland@users.noreply.github.com>2024-12-31 21:22:33 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2024-12-31 21:22:33 (GMT)
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Reword `about.rst` to not limit Sphinx (#128325)
Co-authored-by: Adam Turner <9087854+AA-Turner@users.noreply.github.com>
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-=====================
-About these documents
-=====================
+========================
+About this documentation
+========================
-These documents are generated from `reStructuredText`_ sources by `Sphinx`_, a
-document processor specifically written for the Python documentation.
+Python's documentation is generated from `reStructuredText`_ sources
+using `Sphinx`_, a documentation generator originally created for Python
+and now maintained as an independent project.
.. _reStructuredText: https://docutils.sourceforge.io/rst.html
.. _Sphinx: https://www.sphinx-doc.org/
@@ -20,14 +21,14 @@ volunteers are always welcome!
Many thanks go to:
* Fred L. Drake, Jr., the creator of the original Python documentation toolset
- and writer of much of the content;
+ and author of much of the content;
* the `Docutils <https://docutils.sourceforge.io/>`_ project for creating
reStructuredText and the Docutils suite;
* Fredrik Lundh for his Alternative Python Reference project from which Sphinx
got many good ideas.
-Contributors to the Python Documentation
+Contributors to the Python documentation
----------------------------------------
Many people have contributed to the Python language, the Python standard