[Python-Dev] docs.python.org pointing to Python 3 by default?

[R. David Murray]

On Mon, 21 May 2012 11:19:56 -0400, David Malcolm <dmalcolm at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-05-18 at 14:24 -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> > At what point should we cut over docs.python.org to point to the Python 3
> > documentation by default?  Wouldn't this be an easy bit to flip in order to
> > promote Python 3 more better?
> 
> If we do, perhaps we should revisit http://bugs.python.org/issue10446
> 
> http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/b41404a3f7d4/ changed pydoc in the py3k
> branch to direct people to http://docs.python.org/X.Y/library/ rather
> than to http://docs.python.org/library/
> 
> This was applied to the 3.2 and 3.1 branches, but hasn't been backported
> to any of the 2.* - so if docs.python.org starts defaulting to python 3,
> it makes sense to backport that change to 2.*

Note that I did apply the fix for 14434 to 2.7.  So yes, I think 10446
should be applied to 2.7 as well.

--David