Deborah Swanson wrote:
I'd imagine that the old Google would have returned a good 10 pages or more (probably a lot more) of urls containing the phrase "dict comprehension" or "dictionary comprehension".
It still does, as far as I can see. I just googled for "dict comprehension", and the vast majority of results in the first 10 pages relate to Python. By page 20 it's starting to wander off a bit, but you can hardly blame it for that. There *are* non-Python web pages that mention the words "dict" and "comprehension", and how is Google to know that you don't want those if you don't tell it?
You used to be able to keep sifting through pages of results after the bulk of urls fitting your criteria had passed, and still find useful things to look at, sometimes at page 500
Seems to me Google was doing a rather *bad* job if you had to wade through 500 pages of results to find what you wanted. I would never have the patience to do that! Anyhow, the reason Google got brought up was that you were complaining about difficulty of finding things in the Python docs. Google *does* turn up the relevant part of the docs in the very first page of results, so being able to do a direct text search on the docs wouldn't do any better. -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
