#8040: add a version switcher to the documentation. Patch by Yury Selivanov.

1 files changed, 60 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/tools/sphinxext/static/version_switch.js b/Doc/tools/sphinxext/static/version_switch.js
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+(function() {
+  'use strict';
+
+  var all_versions = {
+    '3.4': 'dev (3.4)',
+    '3.3': '3.3',
+    '3.2': '3.2',
+    '2.7': '2.7',
+    '2.6': '2.6'
+  };
+
+  function build_select(current_version, current_release) {
+    var buf = ['<select>'];
+
+    $.each(all_versions, function(version, title) {
+      buf.push('<option value="' + version + '"');
+      if (version == current_version)
+        buf.push(' selected="selected">' + current_release + '</option>');
+      else
+        buf.push('>' + title + '</option>');
+    });
+
+    buf.push('</select>');
+    return buf.join('');
+  }
+
+  function patch_url(url, new_version) {
+    var url_re = /\.org\/(\d|py3k|dev|((release\/)?\d\.\d[\w\d\.]*))\//,
+        new_url = url.replace(url_re, '.org/' + new_version + '/');
+
+    if (new_url == url && !new_url.match(url_re)) {
+      // python 2 url without version?
+      new_url = url.replace(/\.org\//, '.org/' + new_version + '/');
+    }
+    return new_url;
+  }
+
+  function on_switch() {
+    var selected = $(this).children('option:selected').attr('value');
+
+    var url = window.location.href,
+        new_url = patch_url(url, selected);
+
+    if (new_url != url) {
+      // check beforehand if url exists, else redirect to version's start page
+      $.get(new_url, function() {
+        window.location.href = new_url;
+      }).error(function() {
+        window.location.href = 'http://docs.python.org/' + selected;
+      });
+    }
+  }
+
+  $(document).ready(function() {
+    var select = build_select(DOCUMENTATION_OPTIONS.VERSION,
+                              DOCUMENTATION_OPTIONS.RELEASE);
+    $('.version_switcher_placeholder').html(select);
+    $('.version_switcher_placeholder select').bind('change', on_switch);
+  });
+})();