8 The Python language has a substantial body of documentation, much of it
9 contributed by various authors. The markup used for the Python documentation is
10 `reStructuredText`_, developed by the `docutils`_ project, amended by custom
11 directives and using a toolset named `Sphinx`_ to postprocess the HTML output.
13 This document describes the style guide for our documentation, the custom
14 reStructuredText markup introduced to support Python documentation and how it
15 should be used, as well as the Sphinx build system.
17 .. _reStructuredText: http://docutils.sf.net/rst.html
18 .. _docutils: http://docutils.sf.net/
19 .. _Sphinx: http://sphinx.pocoo.org/
21 If you're interested in contributing to Python's documentation, there's no need
22 to write reStructuredText if you're not so inclined; plain text contributions
23 are more than welcome as well.