Download Python 3.8.19 Documentation

Last updated on: Mar 19, 2024.

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These archives contain all the content in the documentation.

HTML Help (.chm) files are made available in the "Windows" sectionon thePythondownload page.

Unpacking

Unix users should download the .tar.bz2 archives; these are bzipped tararchives and can be handled in the usual way using tar and the bzip2program. TheInfoZIP unzip program can beused to handle the ZIP archives if desired. The .tar.bz2 archives provide thebest compression and fastest download times.

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

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