Terry J. Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> added the comment:

Santiago, if you are still running 2.6.5 code, use the most recent 2.6 docs at
http://docs.python.org/release/2.6.6/
This will have all the corrections made after the 2.6.5 release. Contrary to 
what you might think the header line says, there is no particular connection 
between the 2.6.5 code release and the obsolete 2.6.5 doc release.

George, since the continuously updated x.y docs released with x.y.z really 
document x.y and not each x.y.z bugfix release, I am a bit surprised that they 
are labelled x.y.z docs with the claim "This is the documentation for Python 
x.y.z", especially since they are updated after the x.y.z code release.

The current '2.7.2' docs, last updated today, would more truthfully be called 
either '2.7' docs or '2.7.3a0' docs, as they are are a preview of what will be 
released with 2.7.3 and are not what was released with 2.7.2. If there *were* 
(unusally) any new features in 2.7.3a0, they would already be listed in the 
so-called '2.7.2' docs. (There *was* such a bugfix addition for 
difflib.SequenceMatcher in 2.7.1, and I presume it did appear in the updated 
'2.7.0' online docs.)

I am not sure we should have obsolete snapshot versions online. They only serve 
to be an attractive nuisance as illustrated by this issue. With the initial 3.3 
release being called 3.3.0, there would be no ambiguity in calling the 3.3 docs 
just that.

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