I wanted to print the Python Tutorial by Guido for a 
colleague who might be interested in Python.  But this 
was not easy since it is distributed over a 18 different 
html files!  So now he has something looking bad 
because page numbers restart at every section.  I didn't 
have the time to think of a better solution: I wanted to 
give a printed tutorial fast.

So the request is this:  make the tutorial available in 
ONE html file so anybody can print it nicely with correct 
pagenumbers etc. from their browser.  This could also 
be interesting for the other documentation?

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The tutorial is also available in PDF, but at the moment only if you download an archive containing the full documentation set (on the doc/current/download.html page).

Maybe it is a good idea to make the PDFs available separately too? The letter variation is probably best, non-americans are more used to letter than americans to A4, I guess...

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Jack Jansen mentions availability of PDF files, but I did not 
find those on the Python web site when I was (in a hurry) 
looking for the tutorial.  Also he mentions "Letter" or "A4" 
variations, but this is one of the reasons I think one HTML file 
would be best for each document: the users' browser can 
print that to postscript or send it directly to a printer with all 
the users' favorite options.

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The PDF and PostScript formats are better suited to 
printing out booklets.  Let us know if these links meet your 
needs:

http://www.python.org/doc/current/download.html

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Raymond,
I think that the real complaint is "you cannot print the tutorial without 
downloading the full documentation set". I think this is a valid complaint: it's 
a bit silly to have to download and unpack the whole set only to print a 
single document.

My suggestion would be to add a (pdf) link to each of the lines that point to 
the various HTML documentation sections.

If you really don't agree feel free to set the state to closed/invalid again.

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Ah...latests messages are listed high.  I didn't know and was 
reading the bottom (nothing new).
I am the Original Poster (OP) and Jack is right about the 
OP's "real complaint".  I wanted to print the tutorial fast, from 
HTML or PDF preferably.  I would like to add I do not like the 
word complaint for this, Python is open source, and I am very 
happy with any docs there are.

Assigning to me to remind myself about writing a PDF-producing Sphinx
builder.

Which is now done.