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

[Vincent Davis]

As I understand it,
http://docs.python.org/library<https://docs.python.org/3/library/builtins.html>
redirects
to  http://docs.python.org/2/library<https://docs.python.org/3/library/builtins.html>
so
that old links, blog posts..... that exist in the world and originally
referenced python 2 will still work as they pointed to
http://docs.python.org/library<https://docs.python.org/3/library/builtins.html>
(no version number)
* Is this correct?

At some point http://docs.python.org/library<https://docs.python.org/3/library/builtins.html>
should
stop working.
I would consider adding release numbers, i.e
http://docs.python.org/3.4/library<https://docs.python.org/3/library/builtins.html>

All this makes me think it would be cool to have a DIFF button on document
pages that would show a diff between version number. i.e. when I read a
blog post about X and I follow the link in the post to doc version a.b I
can see a quick diff to see how it (docs) compare to version c.d I am using.

I think http://docs.python.org<https://docs.python.org/3/library/builtins.html>
should
be a landing page not forwarded to current version docs. Maybe something
like http://www.python.org/doc/versions/ although I think that should be
here http://docs.python.org/versions/


Vincent Davis
720-301-3003


On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 5:41 AM, Rick Boyce <rickboyce at gmail.com> wrote:

> I get caught out a lot by the titles Google is showing for pages quite
> often too, but as far I can tell they are not related to the /dev docs.
>
> If I Google "python builtins" the top 3 results, for me, are as follows:
>
> 2. Built-in Functions — Python v2.7.6 documentation ->
> http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html
> 28.3. builtins — Built-in objects — Python 3.3.3 documentation ->
> https://docs.python.org/3/library/builtins.html
> Built-in objects - Python 3.3.3 documentation ->
> http://docs.python.org/library/__builtin__.html
>
> The top two are fine, but the last one is a Python 2 docs page but Google
> shows the title as being for 3.3. This seems to be really common when
> googling for python docs.
>
> At least the design of the two versions is different enough that you spot
> it immediately, but it happens often enough to be confusing all the same!
>
> Rick
>
>
> On 25 January 2014 13:47, Vincent Davis <vincent at vincentdavis.net> wrote:
>
>> When I do a google search the version numbers are mismatched with the
>> linked page (or redirected).
>> For example search for "python counter" I get the following results.
>> (see attachment)
>> It seems like the website is redirecting incorrectly.
>>
>>
>>    1. collections - Python 3.3.3 documentation<http://docs.python.org/library/collections.html>
>>    1. links to http://docs.python.org/library/collections.html
>>       2. redirects to http://docs.python.org/2/library/collections.html
>>       3. Which is python 2.7.6
>>    2. itertools - Python 3.3.3 documentation<http://docs.python.org/library/itertools.html>
>>    1. links to http://docs.python.org/library/itertools.html
>>       2. redirects to http://docs.python.org/2/library/itertools.html
>>       3. Which is again 2.7.6
>>    3. 8.3. collections — Container datatypes - Python 3.3.3 documentation<http://docs.python.org/dev/library/collections>
>>    1. This one seems correct, 3.40b2
>>       2. links to http://docs.python.org/dev/library/collections
>>
>> The link to addresses are not really true, they look more like:
>>
>> https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CCcQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdocs.python.org%2Flibrary%2Fcollections.html&ei=k7vjUqPrHM_jsAS-m4G4Cw&usg=AFQjCNFTyb_RHzPdorBGavEIR_ekNn_AFA&sig2=yW6S02oUEfioUot11lTAlQ&bvm=bv.59930103,d.cWc
>>
>> Vincent Davis
>>
>>
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