Oliver Too, Eh? added the comment:
As someone who is only now making the transition from Python 2 to Python 3,
losing the numbering in the documentation on the Python Standard Library slows
down my navigation when looking through the high-level contents.
Given that the position of
New submission from Oliver Too, Eh? :
Documentation contents are ordered, and readers familiar with the section
numbers/ordering from the Python 2 or Python 3.5 documentation will have an
easier time transitioning to Python 3.6 or later if the sections remain
numbered.
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