René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Should reference to old books be retained?","articleBody":"# Documentation\n\nA [question on the help channel](https://discuss.python.org/t/offical-documentation/36356) asked about a reference to a \"twenty year old book,\" but didn't specify it. I assume the poster was referring to Mark Lutz's book. I realize that book has a place in Python history as perhaps the first widely read book on Python, but should it still be afforded more-or-less first class status as Python reference material? I don't know when it was last updated, so maybe it's up-to-date and the link just needs to be corrected, but if not, perhaps we should continue ourselves to more recent, online, sources which better match the current language.\n\n\u003c!-- gh-linked-prs --\u003e\n### Linked PRs\n* gh-112490\n* gh-112523\n* gh-112524\n\u003c!-- /gh-linked-prs --\u003e\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/smontanaro","@type":"Person","name":"smontanaro"},"datePublished":"2023-10-16T13:39:58.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":5},"url":"https://github.com/110930/cpython/issues/110930"}