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Python API docs link points to very outdated documentation

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Description

What version of protobuf and what language are you using?

Version: Python protobuf >6

Language: Python

**What
macOS

**What
python

What did you do?

  1. Go to the Python Reference page: https://protobuf.dev/reference/python/
  2. Click "Python API"

What did you expect to see

Documentation for the latest version of the Python bindings.

What did you see instead?

Documentation for 4.21.1, which is purported to be the most recent version, despite being 4 years old. According to PyPI, the most recent version is 7.36.0, which is 3 major versions higher than the linked documentation.

This documentation is hugely out of date, referencing functions that no longer exist, which causes significant confusion for users.

Anything else we should know about your project / environment

No.

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