On 12/04/2014 03:27 AM, Albert van der Horst wrote: > That doesn't help. I'm a very experienced programmer and work in > routinely a dozen languages. Sometimes I do python. I want to do > numeric work. I remember the name numpy. It is important, everybody > knows it, it is all over the place. So I want to find its docs, > or some lead, whatever. I go to the official Python site, > http://docs.python.org and type in numpy in the search machine.
> It is embarassing, try it! That would indeed be embarrassing if numpy was a part of Python or had anything to do with the python.org project. In fact it doesn't. It's a third-party library for use with python. As a beginner I would type in "numpy" to google and see what happens. Would you expect to go to Microsoft MSDN to find information on a third-party library, such as, say, SDL or Allegro, that you use in Visual Studio? > Plain google is far superior in finding information. Of course, since the information you are looking is third-party to python.org for a start. > And you tell me that writing yet another tutorial would improve that? > No, there is just one way. The powers that be should look critically > at their website, and test it with a beginners hat on. Your ire is misplaced. The GP was saying that if there is a deficiency in the Python docs you can help fix that. If there's a deficiency in the numpy docs, you can ask them about fixing that's what he means. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
