More formatting of tutorial\index.html
Massive changes to support Sphinx docs

Removed pydocs as there really wasn't any unique content.  Did a lot of
work on the main file to adjust docstrings to work with sphinx.  Added
documentation for lots of functions that are missing docs.
added .pyc files to .gitignore
minor cleanup of git
Merge branch 'master' into 0.97-Documentation-changes

Conflicts:
	.gitignore

Merging using the command line
Merge branch '0.97-Documentation-changes'