[docs] [issue24128] Documentation links are forwarded to Python 2

Marc-Andre Lemburg report at bugs.python.org
Tue May 5 21:35:29 CEST 2015


Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment:

On 05.05.2015 21:24, levkivskyi wrote:
> 
> Links to Python library documentation such as:
> http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html
> http://docs.python.org/library/itertools.html
> http://docs.python.org/library/functools.html
> etc.
> are automatically forwarded to the Python 2 versions, namely to:
> https://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html
> https://docs.python.org/2/library/itertools.html
> https://docs.python.org/2/library/functools.html
> 
> At the same time docs.python.org is forwarded to Python 3 version https://docs.python.org/3/
> 
> I believe that all the documentation links should be forwarded to the current version that is Python 3.

This is intentional. All new links to Python documentation
should include the version number. To keep existing old
links to the documentation working, they redirect to the
Python 2 version of the documentation.

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nosy: +lemburg

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