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Re: Did the 3.4.4 docs get published early?

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On 10.06.2015 17:05, Zachary Ware wrote:
> On Jun 10, 2015 9:41 AM, "Mark Lawrence" <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> On 10/06/2015 15:11, Nicholas Chammas wrote:
>>>
>>> For example, here is a "New in version 3.4.4" method:
>>>
>>> https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-task.html#asyncio.ensure_future
>>>
>>> However, the latest release appears to be 3.4.3:
>>>
>>> https://www.python.org/downloads/
>>>
>>> Is this normal, or did the 3.4.4 docs somehow get published early by
>>> mistake?
>>>
>>> Nick
>>>
>>
>> I suspect that this is due to a trainee pilot being let loose too early
> with the time machine.  Failing that finger trouble when doing a commit.
> Thinking about it more likely the former rather than the latter :)
>>
> 
> Actually, it's just that the online docs reflect the latest documentation
> from a particular branch of the source repository, since the docs are
> continually improving and have no backwards compatibility constraints. This
> does mean we sometimes have anomalies like this, though.
> 
> If you truly need the docs as they were at the time of release, they are
> available, though I don't have a link handy on my phone.

You can (with javascript enabled) select the version for the docs at the
top right of the page. Also, just replacing the version number in the
URL works for the python 3 series (use 3.X even for python 3.0), even
farther back than the drop down menu allows.

regards,
jwi

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Re: Did the 3.4.4 docs get published early? Jonas Wielicki <jonas@wielicki.name> - 2015-06-10 19:02 +0200

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