Python Documentation (should be better?)

[Terry Hancock]

On Thursday 12 May 2005 08:57 am, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>     Ivan> I get that.  My question, cleverly concealed in a rant, was, "Why
>     Ivan> does clicking on the Documentation link at python.org NOT take me
>     Ivan> to docs.python.org?"
> I almost changed that link, but then reconsidered.  Compare
>     http://docs.python.org/
> with
>     http://www.python.org/docs/
[...]
> The original functional goal of the http://docs.python.org/ URL was to
> provide a cleaner isolation of "just the facts, Ma'am" so that Google could
> do a better job presenting documentation search results.  Previously, it was
> impossible to separate the mailing list archives from the documentation
> proper in Google searches.

Maybe a good compromise would be to have a search form on the
http://www.python.org/doc/ page labeled "Search Documentation"
which did a search on http://docs.python.org/ , then?

Though I see that "Browse Documentation" does indeed go to
http://docs.python.org .

Cheers,
Terry

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