[Python-ideas] Adding "View Python 3 Documentation" to all Python 2 documentation URLs

[Sebastian Krause]

Sebastian Krause <sebastian at realpath.org> wrote:
> This is why if you search for "python 3 $module" in Google, you'll
> never see a direct link to the 3.5 or 3.6 versions of the
> documentation (because Google merges them with the generic
> docs.python.org/3/), but you still results for versions 3.2, 3.3
> etc. of the documentation (because the lack the canonical links).
>
> A very good step would be to also add this canoncial link to the
> documentation versions 3.0-3.4, this will make docs.python.org/3.3/
> etc. vanish from Google and probably rank the generic
> docs.python.org/3/ higher than now.

Here is Nick Coghlan's bpo issue which added these canonical links:
https://bugs.python.org/issue26355 - looks like applying this to the
older doc versions never happened in the end.