Xah> I don't know what kind of system is used to generate the Python Xah> docs, but it is quite unpleasant to work with manually, as there Xah> are egregious errors and inconsistencies.
The main Python documentation is written in LaTeX. I believe most, if not all, HTML is generated by latex2html. I suspect most of the HTML cruftiness arises from latex2html. Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list