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+#
+# Makefile for Python documentation
+# ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+#
+
+# You can set these variables from the command line.
+PYTHON       = python
+SVNROOT      = http://svn.python.org/projects
+SPHINXOPTS   =
+PAPER        =
+SOURCES      =
+
+ALLSPHINXOPTS = -b $(BUILDER) -d build/doctrees -D latex_paper_size=$(PAPER) \
+                $(SPHINXOPTS) . build/$(BUILDER) $(SOURCES)
+
+.PHONY: help checkout update build html htmlhelp clean
+
+help:
+	@echo "Please use \`make <target>' where <target> is one of"
+	@echo "  html      to make standalone HTML files"
+	@echo "  htmlhelp  to make HTML files and a HTML help project"
+	@echo "  latex     to make LaTeX files, you can set PAPER=a4 or PAPER=letter"
+	@echo "  text      to make plain text files"
+	@echo "  changes   to make an overview over all changed/added/deprecated items"
+	@echo "  linkcheck to check all external links for integrity"
+
+checkout:
+	@if [ ! -d tools/sphinx ]; then \
+	  echo "Checking out Sphinx..."; \
+	  svn checkout $(SVNROOT)/doctools/trunk/sphinx tools/sphinx; \
+	fi
+	@if [ ! -d tools/docutils ]; then \
+	  echo "Checking out Docutils..."; \
+	  svn checkout $(SVNROOT)/external/docutils-0.5/docutils tools/docutils; \
+	fi
+	@if [ ! -d tools/jinja ]; then \
+	  echo "Checking out Jinja..."; \
+	  svn checkout $(SVNROOT)/external/Jinja-1.2/jinja tools/jinja; \
+	fi
+	@if [ ! -d tools/pygments ]; then \
+	  echo "Checking out Pygments..."; \
+	  svn checkout $(SVNROOT)/external/Pygments-0.11.1/pygments tools/pygments; \
+	fi
+
+update: checkout
+	svn update tools/sphinx
+	svn update tools/docutils
+	svn update tools/jinja
+	svn update tools/pygments
+
+build: checkout
+	mkdir -p build/$(BUILDER) build/doctrees
+	$(PYTHON) tools/sphinx-build.py $(ALLSPHINXOPTS)
+	@echo
+
+html: BUILDER = html
+html: build
+	@echo "Build finished. The HTML pages are in build/html."
+
+htmlhelp: BUILDER = htmlhelp
+htmlhelp: build
+	@echo "Build finished; now you can run HTML Help Workshop with the" \
+	      "build/htmlhelp/pydoc.hhp project file."
+
+latex: BUILDER = latex
+latex: build
+	@echo "Build finished; the LaTeX files are in build/latex."
+	@echo "Run \`make all-pdf' or \`make all-ps' in that directory to" \
+	      "run these through (pdf)latex."
+
+text: BUILDER = text
+text: build
+	@echo "Build finished; the text files are in build/text."
+
+changes: BUILDER = changes
+changes: build
+	@echo "The overview file is in build/changes."
+
+linkcheck: BUILDER = linkcheck
+linkcheck: build
+	@echo "Link check complete; look for any errors in the above output " \
+	      "or in build/$(BUILDER)/output.txt"
+
+doctest: BUILDER = doctest
+doctest: build
+	@echo "Testing of doctests in the sources finished, look at the " \
+	      "results in build/doctest/output.txt"
+
+pydoc-topics: BUILDER = pydoc-topics
+pydoc-topics: build
+	@echo "Building finished; now copy build/pydoc-topics/pydoc_topics.py " \
+	      "into the Lib/ directory"
+
+htmlview: html
+	 $(PYTHON) -c "import webbrowser; webbrowser.open('build/html/index.html')"
+
+clean:
+	-rm -rf build/*
+	-rm -rf tools/sphinx
+