New submission from Jonathan Hayward <jonathan.hayw...@pobox.com>: The search function on docs.python.org does not intelligently search the library for a query in the form "module.function". For instance, in searching for information on (say) socket.bind(), neither a search query of "socket.bind()" nor "socket.bind" finds any results. I need to search for "socket bind" / "bind socket" to get results (or possibly "socket" or "bind" alone to get a larger number of less focused results.) This is particularly interesting as the page I am interested in contains the string "socket.bind" and in fact the snippet that appears on the search result page for the #1 match is: "...onnection, and *address* is the address bound to the socket on the other end of the connection. .. method:: socket.bind(address) Bind the socket to *address*. The socket must not already be bound. (The format of *address* depen..."
It would be nice if searches for module.function, module.CONSTANT, module.object, module.object.function, etc. would work for search terms as objects are named in the API. (A much easier, if imperfect approximation, would be to treat \W as breaking words as spaces are treated now, so that e.g. periods in queries would be internally treated as spaces and a search for "socket.bind" would be treated as "socket bind" and possibly get surprisingly good results; see http://docs.python.org/search.html?q=socket+bind .) Jonathan http://JonathansCorner.com/ ---------- assignee: georg.brandl components: Documentation messages: 87755 nosy: JonathansCorner.com, georg.brandl severity: normal status: open title: Search does not intelligently handle module.function queries on docs.python.org _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6023> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
