Mark Lawrence <breamore...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Saturday, July 17, 2021 at 1:03:21 PM UTC+1, Chris Green wrote: > > Every time I go to pypi.org to look for a neat utility or something I > > curse the stupid search. > > > > Is there really no better search available? Apart from anything else > > it appears to OR the elements together so, for example, I wanted to > > search for programs/libraries that will allow me to access Google > > Contacts:- > > > > Putting the words Google and Contacts in the search box produces > > more than 10000 hits. > > > > Putting just Google in the search box produces 8,629 projects. > > > > So, it would appear the terms are OR'ed together, surely OR'ing terms > > in a search (by default) went out with the ark! > > > > When I put 'Google contacts' in the search box I want projects that > > have both 'Google' AND 'Contacts' in their description somewhere! > > (... and, no, I tried 'Google AND Contacts', still more than 10000 > > results). > > > > pypi.org is a wonderful resource but its size now demands a better > > search engine. > > > > As this is an open source project I'm looking forward to the huge amount > of work that you personally will be putting in to remedy this situation. > In summary put up or shut up :)
I'm quite happy to help, however I was just asking (maybe rather more agressively than I should have done) if I was missing something obvious. E.g. is there some syntax that I don't know about that I can use in the search box, or maybe I should use an external search engine? ... and Open Source doesn't mean one can't criticise surely, rather the opposite! :-) (I have, by the way, contributed in a minor way to quite a few open source projects over the years, and that's a lot of years! I even have a small credit in the 'bible' for the Kermit file transfer protocol, remember that?) -- Chris Green ยท -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
