If I remember that correctly, the 'one page' style of python documentation came only in rather recently (last couple of years, >2.3), and the previous style was split one many pages: http://docs.python.org/release/2.3.5/lib/module-string.html
Back then I always hoped for the single page, because I was beginning with the language and jumping up and down the toc table of the docu page to figure stuff out. For a beginner, having this possibility to switch from birds to frog perspective inside one page is really great. They could do a better job on integrating the page-internal toc navigation though.
Back then I always hoped for the single page, because I was beginning with the language and jumping up and down the toc table of the docu page to figure stuff out. For a beginner, having this possibility to switch from birds to frog perspective inside one page is really great. They could do a better job on integrating the page-internal toc navigation though.