[Python-Dev] version numbers mismatched in google search results. (original) (raw)

Vincent Davis vincent at vincentdavis.net
Fri Jan 31 15:22:29 CET 2014

As I understand it, http://docs.python.org/library<https://docs.python.org/3/library/builtins.html> redirects to http://docs.python.org/2/library<https://docs.python.org/3/library/builtins.html> so that old links, blog posts..... that exist in the world and originally referenced python 2 will still work as they pointed to http://docs.python.org/library<https://docs.python.org/3/library/builtins.html> (no version number)

At some point http://docs.python.org/library<https://docs.python.org/3/library/builtins.html> should stop working. I would consider adding release numbers, i.e http://docs.python.org/3.4/library<https://docs.python.org/3/library/builtins.html>

All this makes me think it would be cool to have a DIFF button on document pages that would show a diff between version number. i.e. when I read a blog post about X and I follow the link in the post to doc version a.b I can see a quick diff to see how it (docs) compare to version c.d I am using.

I think <http://docs.python.orghttps://docs.python.org/3/library/builtins.html> should be a landing page not forwarded to current version docs. Maybe something like http://www.python.org/doc/versions/ although I think that should be here http://docs.python.org/versions/

Vincent Davis 720-301-3003

On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 5:41 AM, Rick Boyce <rickboyce at gmail.com> wrote:

I get caught out a lot by the titles Google is showing for pages quite often too, but as far I can tell they are not related to the /dev docs.

If I Google "python builtins" the top 3 results, for me, are as follows: 2. Built-in Functions — Python v2.7.6 documentation -> http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html 28.3. builtins — Built-in objects — Python 3.3.3 documentation -> https://docs.python.org/3/library/builtins.html Built-in objects - Python 3.3.3 documentation -> http://docs.python.org/library/builtin.html The top two are fine, but the last one is a Python 2 docs page but Google shows the title as being for 3.3. This seems to be really common when googling for python docs. At least the design of the two versions is different enough that you spot it immediately, but it happens often enough to be confusing all the same! Rick

On 25 January 2014 13:47, Vincent Davis <vincent at vincentdavis.net> wrote: When I do a google search the version numbers are mismatched with the linked page (or redirected). For example search for "python counter" I get the following results. (see attachment) It seems like the website is redirecting incorrectly.

1. collections - Python 3.3.3 documentation<http://docs.python.org/library/collections.html> 1. links to http://docs.python.org/library/collections.html 2. redirects to http://docs.python.org/2/library/collections.html 3. Which is python 2.7.6 2. itertools - Python 3.3.3 documentation<http://docs.python.org/library/itertools.html> 1. links to http://docs.python.org/library/itertools.html 2. redirects to http://docs.python.org/2/library/itertools.html 3. Which is again 2.7.6 3. 8.3. collections — Container datatypes - Python 3.3.3 documentation<http://docs.python.org/dev/library/collections> 1. This one seems correct, 3.40b2 2. links to http://docs.python.org/dev/library/collections The link to addresses are not really true, they look more like: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CCcQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdocs.python.org%2Flibrary%2Fcollections.html&ei=k7vjUqPrHMjsAS-m4G4Cw&usg=AFQjCNFTybRHzPdorBGavEIRekNnAFA&sig2=yW6S02oUEfioUot11lTAlQ&bvm=bv.59930103,d.cWc Vincent Davis

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