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Using Python to generate CHM and Word manuals

pydocgen is a Python-Powered script to generate Microsoft Word (TM) documents and HTMLHelp files from a plain HTML source.

As an example, this HTML source was used to generate this HTMLHelp file and this Word document. Incidentally, these files are the documentation for pydocgen ;)

Download

You can download the required files here.

Generating docs for the Python Standard Library

There is a special version of pydocgen that generates a helpfile from the docstrings of the Python Standard Library.

You can download both the sourcecode and the helpfile.