Download Python 2.7.16 Documentation

Last updated on: Mar 27, 2019.

To download an archive containing all the documents for this version of Python in one of various formats, follow one of links in this table. The numbers in the table are the size of the download files in megabytes.

Format	Packed as .zip	Packed as .tar.bz2
PDF (US-Letter paper size)	Download (ca. 11 MB)	Download (ca. 11 MB)
PDF (A4 paper size)	Download (ca. 11 MB)	Download (ca. 11 MB)
HTML	Download (ca. 7.5 MB)	Download (ca. 5 MB)
Plain Text	Download (ca. 2.5 MB)	Download (ca. 2 MB)

These archives contain all the content in the documentation.

HTML Help (.chm) files are made available in the "Files" section on the Python download page.

Unpacking

Unix users should download the .tar.bz2 archives; these are bzipped tar archives and can be handled in the usual way using tar and the bzip2 program. The InfoZIP unzip program can be used to handle the ZIP archives if desired. The .tar.bz2 archives provide the best compression and fastest download times.

Windows users can use the ZIP archives since those are customary on that platform. These are created on Unix using the InfoZIP zip program.

Problems

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