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    <p>Since Python 2.6, it seems the documentation is in the new <a href="http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/2.6.html#new-documentation-format-restructuredtext-using-sphinx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">reStructuredText</a> format, and it doesn't seem very easy to build a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Info_(Unix)" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Texinfo Info</a> file out of the box anymore.</p> <p>I'm an Emacs addict and prefer my documentation installed in Info.</p> <p>Does anyone have Python 2.6 or later docs in Texinfo format? How did you convert them? Or, is there a maintained build somewhere out there?</p> <p>I know I can use w3m or <a href="http://furius.ca/haddoc/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">haddoc</a> to view the html docs - I really want them in Info.</p> <p>I've played with <a href="http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Pandoc</a> but after a few small experiments it doesn't seem to deal well with links between documents, and my larger experiment - running it across all docs cat'ed together to see what happens - is still chugging along two days since I started it!</p> <h2>Two good answers</h2> <p>Highlighting two answers below, because SO won't allow me to accept both answers:</p> <ul> <li>@wilfred-hughes: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/18847967/17221">Installing from MELPA</a> is the quickest way to get pre-build info into Emacs</li> <li>@alioth: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/42739005/17221">Building it yourself</a> looks like it's a lot easier than when I asked this question in 2009</li> </ul>
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    1. CO"Not programming related" - I assume you're kidding. My question is specifically about practising programming in a particular environment.
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    3. COHi seth - in a sense, it did because I killed it. Two days was about enough for me to decide that it wasn't a great option. My experiments with smaller files showed it wasn't perfect. I've just started working on a rst2info project - if you (or anyone) is able to help, I'm putting it here: http://repo.or.cz/w/rst2info.git - it will be a bit of an uphill battle because I haven't written reStructuredText or Texinfo in my life, and TBH I have no real interest in learning it (or docutils) now.
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