Issue 7067: Suggest better documentation of 2 versus 3 on 3.1.1 site. (original) (raw)

Created on 2009-10-05 20:52 by srl, last changed 2022-04-11 14:56 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (5)
msg93620 - (view) Author: Steven R. Loomis (srl) Date: 2009-10-05 20:52
It would be nice if http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.1.1/ had the '3 vs 2' explanation made more prominent, just as it was in the 3.0. Maybe I've been living under a rock, but I didn't realize that 3 was such a change. Maybe the words 'backwards-incompatible' could be a link to http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html which explained things quite nicely. You could also add something on the home page, with a link to that same page under the title "3 versus 2?" Please consider the scenario where someone "needs python installed" to run an existing program, and they go to http://www.python.org - wanting to download the latest version would be the logical thing to do. You could use this opportunity to suggest running the 2to3 converter and so upgrading their existing program. Again, the 3.1.1 release page doesn't have the link to 2to3, but 3.0 does. Thank you for your consideration.
msg94350 - (view) Author: Georg Brandl (georg.brandl) * (Python committer) Date: 2009-10-22 15:10
I added the 3.0 whatsnew and 2to3 links in (pydotorg) r12618.
msg94352 - (view) Author: Steven R. Loomis (srl) Date: 2009-10-22 15:16
Thnks for fixing this. there still seems to be something up with http://python.org/download/releases/3.1.1/ - it says 'Inline interpreted text or phrase reference start-string without end-string.' and the changelog link is broken. But I see the new links.
msg94357 - (view) Author: Georg Brandl (georg.brandl) * (Python committer) Date: 2009-10-22 15:50
Thanks, this is now fixed.
msg94361 - (view) Author: Steven R. Loomis (srl) Date: 2009-10-22 16:06
welcome, looks great!
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