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Python stdlib Docs Quick Search for Firefox

5 pointsby mahipalabout 15 years ago

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JimmyLabout 15 years ago
This is great, but unfortunately assumes you know the exact name of what you're looking for. My suggestion: if the query doesn't return a result using the current algorithm, redirect to a Google query of "%s site:docs.python.org".<p>As an example, let's look at izip. If I search for itertools.izip using this, it works as suggested - but if I just search for izip, I get "Sorry, nothing was found matching izip." Based on the description of the service, this is correct (but not that helpful - maybe I just didn't feel like typing out itertools). If it fell back to a site-specific Google search, I would instead get a page of search results - and the first result would be the manpage for itertools, which has exactly what I'm looking for within it.