Prebuilt CHM file on Docs download page

[postmasters]

BPO	14289
Nosy	@birkenfeld, @postmasters

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closed_at = <Date 2012-03-14.07:19:20.866>
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title = 'Prebuilt CHM file on Docs download page'
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[postmasters]

Before 2.7, one can easily find .CHM files in the Documentation download page. When 2.7 come out, the only way to get CHM files is downloading the Windows installers (EXE or MSI), installing it on Windows, and grabbing the CHM files. This is unwieldy.

I am on a Mac at work, have a desktop running Linux and Windows at home. In all cases, I usually rely on the CHM file. It is self-packaged, indexable, and easily searchable. There are CHM readers out there that work across different OSes such as the cross platform xCHM.

Therefore, I'd like to request for a prebuilt .CHM file for download, in addition to what there already are.

[birkenfeld]

The CHMs are already on the Python download page, along with the .msi installers.

We can add a note to the docs download page that they are to be found there.

[python-dev]

New changeset 2800530b00d3 by Georg Brandl in branch '3.2':
Closes bpo-14289: put a link to the CHM download page on the docs download page.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/2800530b00d3

New changeset b4d1e51d91f8 by Georg Brandl in branch 'default':
bpo-14289: merge with 3.2
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/b4d1e51d91f8

New changeset 3e62379008c2 by Georg Brandl in branch '2.7':
Closes bpo-14289: put a link to the CHM download page on the docs download page.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/3e62379008c2

[postmasters]

I can't find any CHM for download.

For example, this is everything there is to Python 3.2.2:

http://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.2.2/

Yet there's no sight of CHM in it.