Proposal: an unchanging URL for Python documentation

[olsongt at verizon.net]

Simon Brunning wrote:
>
> Yup, but it's not all unchanging. Take, for example,
> <http://www.python.org/doc/current/tut/node16.html>. I have wanted to
> steer people towards that page a number of times, and that node
number
> keeps changing.
>

Here's the code I've been using to translate the latex2html links
(including embedded anchors) to something that has some context.  I can
lookup links via something that is understandable like
('os','path','exists').  A truly adventurous person could probably use
this to write a redirector.

http://pyxr.sourceforge.net/PyXR/c/python24/lib/site-packages/pyxr/htmlCrawler.py.html