[Python-ideas] Make Python 2.7’s online docs optionally redirect to Python 3 online docs

[Andre Roberge]

On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 9:10 AM James Lu <jamtlu at gmail.com> wrote:

> Rationale: When I use a search engine to google a Python question, I
> frequently get a link to a page of the Python 2.7 documentation that shows
> before the Python 3 documentation link.
>

There exists browser extensions that do this:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/py3direct/

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/py3redirect/codfjigcljdnlklcaopdciclmmdandig?hl=en

André Roberge



>
> This is annoying and slows down my programming.
>
> I propose: That we add a setting to Python’s online documentation that
> will optionally given that certain conditions are met, we redirect the user
> to the corresponding Python 3 documentation entry. The conditions:
> - The Referer header is set to a URL of a major search engine (the Referer
> is the URL of the last page that whose link was clicked on to reach the
> documentation)
> - The user has opted-in to this behavior.
>
> (Conceptually this should be user script, but for the collective
> conscience of all python developers, a doc option would be better. )
>
> I understand that some core devs might just have documentation downloaded
> and just use that, but a large portion of Python users  primarily use
> online documentation
>
> James Lu
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