How do you get Python documentation in Texinfo Info format?

Question

Since Python 2.6, it seems the documentation is in the new reStructuredText format, and it doesn\'t seem very easy to build a Texinfo Info file out of the box anymore.

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Answer 1

Python docs are now generated using Sphynx framework. This framework does not have texinfo output format. Currently it has:

1. HTML
2. latex
3. plain text

Maybe you can get what you want using the Latex output. With the text output you will lost the cross ref.

Personnaly I prefer using pydoc when I want textual output. With Vim I have a shorcut to call pydoc and open a window with the doc for the entity under my cursor...