[Python-ideas] docs.python.org: Short URLs

[Markus Unterwaditzer]

On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 11:17:16AM -0500, random832 at fastmail.us wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014, at 10:24, Ryan Hiebert wrote:
> > I'm not sure that just these URLs are going to be any more helpful than
> > what we currently have:
> > 
> > ``http://docs.python.org/3.2/library/functions.html#str``
> > 
> > Are we looking at adding separate pages for each function, to give more
> > in-depth details to function, or is it really just a redirect?
> 
> [bikeshedding intensifies]
> 
> I, personally, if given a URL consisting of only "str", would expect it
> to lead to the documentation of the str _class_ (currently mostly at
> http://docs.python.org/3.2/library/stdtypes.html#string-methods), more
> or less
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Sure, i agree.

The script i posted meshed all dictionaries (one for functions, objects,
classes, modules each) together in arbitrary order, i know this can be
improved.

-- Markus