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+Python Enhancement Proposals
+============================
+
+The PEPs in this repo are published automatically on the web at
+http://www.python.org/dev/peps/.  To learn more about the purpose of
+PEPs and how to go about writing a PEP, please start reading at PEP 1
+(pep-0001.txt in this repo).  Note that PEP 0, the index PEP, is now
+automatically generated, and not committed to the repo.
+
+
 reStructuredText for PEPs
 =========================
 
 Original PEP source may be written using two standard formats, a
 mildly idiomatic plaintext format and the reStructuredText format
-(also, technically plaintext).  These two formats are described in PEP
-9 and PEP 12 respectively.  The pep2html.py processing and
+(also, technically plaintext).  These two formats are described in
+PEP 9 and PEP 12 respectively.  The pep2html.py processing and
 installation script knows how to produce the HTML for either PEP
 format.
 
 For processing reStructuredText format PEPs, you need the docutils
-package, which is available from PyPI.
+package, which is available from PyPI (http://pypi.python.org).
+If you have pip, "pip install docutils" should install it.