Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!news.stack.nl!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.004 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; 'essentially': 0.04; "'python": 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'subject:version': 0.09; 'python': 0.11; "wouldn't": 0.14; 'index.': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'redirects': 0.16; 'referencing': 0.16; 'revision.': 0.16; 'select.': 0.16; 'subject:link': 0.16; 'x.y': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'module': 0.19; 'normally': 0.19; 'typing': 0.19; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'either.': 0.24; '(or': 0.24; 'switch': 0.26; 'header:X -Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'chris': 0.29; 'am,': 0.29; "doesn't": 0.30; 'along': 0.30; '(which': 0.31; 'lines': 0.31; '3.2': 0.31; 'oversight': 0.31; 'url:python': 0.33; 'could': 0.34; 'except': 0.35; 'something': 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'google': 0.35; 'possible': 0.36; 'url:org': 0.36; 'list': 0.37; 'url:library': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'short': 0.38; 'sure': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'even': 0.60; 'url:3': 0.61; 'received:173': 0.61; 'back': 0.62; 'url:http': 0.64; 'url:0': 0.67; 'subject': 0.69; 'received:fios.verizon.net': 0.84; 'subject:Old': 0.84; 'touching': 0.84 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Terry Jan Reedy Subject: Re: Old version docs don't link to current version Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 15:32:58 -0400 References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-173-75-251-66.phlapa.fios.verizon.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130328 Thunderbird/17.0.5 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 24 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1368387184 news.xs4all.nl 15924 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:48552 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:45195 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.