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On Tuesday, August 25, 2015 at 3:40:38 PM UTC-7, pdknsk wrote:
>
> Previously, Google would document functions, classes and (if applicable) 
> exceptions for services, such as URLFetch. This has been replaced with a 
> single API reference link that leads to auto-generated-from-source 
> documentation. The formatting of the latter is poor. And you don't get 
> exceptions, unless you notice that clicking next gets you to exceptions, 
> usually.
>
> There are more problems. An example. When you try to figure out the return 
> value of set_multi_async(), you get this: See 
> _set_multi_async_with_policy(). Which isn't mentioned in the documentation. 
> So you might as well skip this new documentation and read the source.
>
>
> https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/refdocs/google.appengine.api.memcache
>
> I think this is a regression. It probably means less work for Google, but 
> more work for users.
>

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