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Re: Old version docs don't link to current version

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On 5/12/2013 10:12 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> Not sure if this is an oversight or something deliberate... could be either.
>
>  From http://docs.python.org/3.0/library/http.server.html there's no
> link to the current docs, even though from
> http://docs.python.org/3/library/http.server.html it's possible to
> switch to 3.2 and then back to 3.3 (or to 2.7, but that fails and
> redirects since http.server doesn't exist in 2.7). This wouldn't be
> much of a bother, except that a Google search for 'python http.server'
> (which is the way I normally pull up Python docs) landed me on /3.0/
> instead of /3/.
>
> Was this intentional, along the lines of not touching the old and
> unsupported docs?

Cross referencing was added while 3.2 docs were still subject to 
revision. x.y docs are essentially frozen once the final x.y.z bugfix 
comes out.

Since I always enter the docs through docs.python.org/3/ (or /2/) typing 
just 'd' on Firefox history bar brings up both on the short history list 
to select. I then use module or general index.

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Re: Old version docs don't link to current version Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-05-12 15:32 -0400

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