[Python-Dev] docs.python.org pointing to Python 3 by default? (original) (raw)

R. David Murray rdmurray at bitdance.com
Mon May 21 18:15:38 CEST 2012


On Mon, 21 May 2012 11:19:56 -0400, David Malcolm <dmalcolm at redhat.com> wrote:

On Fri, 2012-05-18 at 14:24 -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote: > At what point should we cut over docs.python.org to point to the Python 3 > documentation by default? Wouldn't this be an easy bit to flip in order to > promote Python 3 more better?

If we do, perhaps we should revisit http://bugs.python.org/issue10446 http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/b41404a3f7d4/ changed pydoc in the py3k branch to direct people to http://docs.python.org/X.Y/library/ rather than to http://docs.python.org/library/ This was applied to the 3.2 and 3.1 branches, but hasn't been backported to any of the 2.* - so if docs.python.org starts defaulting to python 3, it makes sense to backport that change to 2.*

Note that I did apply the fix for 14434 to 2.7. So yes, I think 10446 should be applied to 2.7 as well.

--David



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