[Python-Dev] http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel still available

[Georg Brandl]

Bob Ippolito wrote:
> On Feb 16, 2006, at 11:35 AM, Benji York wrote:
> 
>> Alexander Schremmer wrote:
>>> In fact, PHP does it like php.net/functionname which is even  
>>> shorter, i.e.
>>> they fallback to the documentation if that path does not exist  
>>> otherwise.
>>
>> Like many things PHP, that seems a bit too magical for my tastes.
> 
> Not only does it fall back to documentation, it falls back to a  
> search for documentation if there isn't a function of that name.
> 
> It's a convenient feature, I'm sure people would use it if it was  
> there... even if it was something like http://python.org/doc/name

Yes. Either that or docs.python.org/... would be nice.

(alongside with the "custom markers" I proposed one time so that there
can be "speaking" URLs like

docs.python.org/mutable-default-arguments

)

Georg