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

2019-03-07 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 10:48 AM Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > /2/ followed by /3.1.5/. No /3/ on first page, so no option to > > influence better placement of /3/. > > You could click through to the second page of search results :-) Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1334/ It's unclear whether

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

2019-03-07 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 05:53:58PM -0500, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 3/7/2019 8:56 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: [...] > >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. [...] > I

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

2019-03-07 Thread Greg Ewing
Steven D'Aprano wrote: I've found that the search engines are getting better at linking to the more recent docs. Likely this is simply due to the fact that Python 3 is being used more than it was, so more of its doc pages are getting linked to. If that's true, then thing should continue to

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

2019-03-07 Thread Terry Reedy
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

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

2019-03-07 Thread Adrien Ricocotam
The way search engines works is “the more it’s clicked, the higher it is” In order to have python3 on top of the results, just hit the Python3 result :) ___ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org

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

2019-03-07 Thread Steven D'Aprano
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

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

2019-03-07 Thread Andre Roberge
On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 9:10 AM 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. > There exists browser extensions that do this:

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

2019-03-07 Thread James Lu
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. I propose: That we add a setting to Python’s online