packages discoverer
Sometimes, wandering around the web, I find some example of python code that uses some class or function that I don't know and that I would like to try. I copy the code locally and when I try to run it, I find that the package containing the class/function is not installed on my pc, so I go back to the web to search for it with the search engine. The question is: is there a command or an easy way to find out the name of the package that contains the class/function of my interest? Thank you in advance. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Searching pypi.org, is there an 'advanced search'?
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 1 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 1 results). pypi.org is a wonderful resource but its size now demands a better search engine. -- Chris Green · -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
RE: Searching pypi.org, is there an 'advanced search'?
Chris, Just a bit off topic, but google does have some advanced features such as using the word AND or putting something in quotes to make it search for the combination written the same way. Some of the tricks work for other search engines too. Google does have an advanced search feature here: https://www.google.com/advanced_search For example you may insist on ALL THESE WORDS for a page to be shown or words not to be on the page and more such as only find things on some web site. Good luck. I did such a search for having both google and contacts on just pypi.org and got only 2050 results! LOL! https://www.google.com/search?as_q=google+contacts&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=pypi.org&as_occt=any&safe=images&as_filetype=&tbs= -Original Message- From: Python-list On Behalf Of Chris Green Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2021 8:02 AM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Searching pypi.org, is there an 'advanced search'? 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 1 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 1 results). pypi.org is a wonderful resource but its size now demands a better search engine. -- Chris Green · -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: packages discoverer
On 18Jul2021 00:53, jak wrote: >Sometimes, wandering around the web, I find some example of python code >that uses some class or function that I don't know and that I would like >to try. I copy the code locally and when I try to run it, I find that >the package containing the class/function is not installed on my pc, so >I go back to the web to search for it with the search engine. The >question is: is there a command or an easy way to find out the name of >the package that contains the class/function of my interest? Usually a third party package will be in PyPI: https://pypi.org/ If the import line of the unknown function looks like this: from package_name import function_name you should be able to search for it there. Or, of course: python -m pip install --user package_name to install it in your local Python environment, ready for use. Cheers, Cameron Simpson -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Searching pypi.org, is there an 'advanced search'?
On 2021-07-17 13:01, 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 1 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 1 results). pypi.org is a wonderful resource but its size now demands a better search engine. There's always Google. I find that the search terms: "google contacts" pypi finds some results. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
