Frustrated with mod_python: is there any complete documentation out there?

It me an hour to figure out that to not get 404 errors, you have to make the primary function called index. Now I'm trying to pass a variable in the URL and retrieve it. This is simple in PHP, and in Python I would think it would just be a dictionary.

The official documentation from mod_python is virtually useless. Even a list of classes and functions and how they work would be great.