[docs] Compressing the ePub version of Python docs is a mistake

Christian C Clauss CCC at zurich.ibm.com
Fri Feb 21 17:50:29 CET 2014


Compressing the ePub version of Python docs is a mistake

http://docs.python.org/3/download.html makes available ePub versions of 
Python docs as a .zip or a .tar.bz2 file.

Take a standard out of the box iPad and try do download and read either of 
these files.

iOS by default does not know how to decompress these file formats so you 
can not read the Python docs that you have just downloaded.

There are plenty of workarounds but none of them are nearly as cool as 
reading Python docs.

    Thanks, CCC - +41-79-799-1210

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Christian C. Clauss
Director of Architecture, Technical Strategy, and Partner Recruitment
IBM Software Group, Industry Solutions
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