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R. David Murray rdmurray at bitdance.com
Fri Sep 18 01:27:23 CEST 2009 
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 at 14:19, Fred Drake wrote:
> One of the reasons www.python.org/doc/ was considered less discoverable was 
> the about of only-sometimes-interesting information there; docs.python.org 
> contains only "current" docs (for some vague notion of current and only, 
> given that dev builds and both Python 2 and Python 3 versions).  Some claimed 
> that having "docs" at the front of the URL helped, though I don't recall why.

It's anecdotal, but I can tell you that currently I often type
'http://dev.python.org', get a not found, smack my head, and retype
the url.  I don't have that problem with docs, obviously :)

--David
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