[Python-Dev] version numbers mismatched in google search results.

[Benjamin Peterson]

On Sat, Jan 25, 2014, at 10:55 AM, Vincent Davis wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Benjamin Peterson
> <benjamin at python.org>wrote:
> 
> > Internal links with no version redirect to the Python 2 version for
> > backwards compatibility reasons.
> >
> 
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
> 
> > Yep, and the URLs without version never served Python 3 docs as far as I
> > can
> >
> remember, so I don't know where Google has these <title>s from.
> ​
> That is not consistent with​
> ​http://docs.python.org (no version number) redirects to
> http://docs.python.org/3/

This is recent. It used to go to Python 2 docs.

> Maybe this is related to google search results.
> Seems wrong to me to point to 2.7 rather that 3.3 but I am sure there was
> discussion about that.

The internal links all used to go to Python 2.

> 
> I looked (googled) for an example of a google link to current version of
> python 3.3 documentation.  My approach was to google "python" and
> something
> listed in
> http://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.3.html
> These results all seem to point to http://docs.python.org/dev/library​
> i.e.
> 3.4.0b2
> 
> 
> Vincent Davis