On 3/7/2019 8:56 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 08:10:20AM -0500, James Lu 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.
This is annoying and slows down my programming.
Please see
https://bugs.python.org/issue35435
and related links from that issue.
I've found that the search engines are getting better at linking to the
more recent docs. For example, all of these:
give me Python 3 first and Python 2 second.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=python+docs+random
https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=python+docs+itertools
https://www.bing.com/search?q=python+docs+netrc
https://www.startpage.com/do/search?q=python+docs+array
Ditto for me: /3/ before /2/.
https://www.dogpile.com/serp?q=python+docs+shutil
I get /2/ before /3/
Even the comparatively
obscure "sndhdr" module gets Python 3 first:
https://www.google.com/search?q=python+docs+sndhdr
Ditto, but no /2/ on first page.
However these gives Python 2 first:
https://www.startpage.com/do/search?q=python+docs+netrc
/2/ followed by /3.1.5/. No /3/ on first page, so no option to
influence better placement of /3/.
https://www.dogpile.com/serp?q=python+docs+fileinput
I get /3/ before /2/. Does order depend on country? (AU versus US)
But note that the docs do include a drop down menu to select the
version, so it shouldn't be that difficult to swap from old versions to
the most recent.
(Unless you're looking at *really* old versions like 1.5.)
(Or 3.1.5 ;-)
--
Terry Jan Reedy
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