Re: python doc available in emacs info format?

[Jason Earl]

Sean Sieger <sean.sieger@gmail.com> writes:

> Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com> writes:
>
>     I noticed that Matthias actually mentioned that info docs is available
>     and bundled out of the box on Ubuntu linux for many popular langs, as
>     of 2008-12.
>
>     Is that true? Where can i download these info files? As far as i know,
>     a little google search or official doc sites usually don't have a
>     download for info format.
>
>     I'm interested in getting current version doc for perl, python, php,
>     and ruby.
>
> On Ubuntu GNU/Linux:
>
> sudo aptitude update
> sudo aptitude install perl-doc php-doc python2.5-doc rdoc
>
> Certainly perldoc is available at CTAN, the latest sources for python
> info docs are in the tarball,
>
> http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6.2/Python-2.6.2.tgz
>
> and so on.

Are you sure that the 2.6 and up tarballs for Python include
documentation in info format?  I've downloaded the tarball in your link,
and I can't find it.  What's more the documentation Makefile has targets
for html, htmlhelp, latex, text, but no info formats.

Jason