[issue37862] Search doesn't find built-in functions

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Even if click 'Library Reference', click '2. Built-in...', click name in the index at the top of the page to go to the entry I know I want to read is sometimes slower that 'click search box', enter word, hit Return, wait for results, scan results to find tha

[issue37862] Search doesn't find built-in functions

Ammar Askar added the comment: See also https://bugs.python.org/issue34398 There is some related work done by Julien there as well: https://github.com/JulienPalard/pydocsearch -- nosy: +ammar2 ___ Python tracker

[issue37862] Search doesn't find built-in functions

Kim Oldfield added the comment: Usually the search page is the quickest way to find documentation about a module or function - quicker than navigating through a couple of levels of pages (documentation home, index, index by letter, scroll or search in page to find desired name, click on name

[issue37862] Search doesn't find built-in functions

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: The search page is the last thing one should use. There is the index https://docs.python.org/3/genindex-Z.html and for builtin function, chapter 2 of the library manual. https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#built-in-functions I don't know if the o

[issue37862] Search doesn't find built-in functions

New submission from Kim Oldfield : The python 3 documentation search https://docs.python.org/3/search.html doesn't always find built-in functions. For example, searching for "zip" takes me to https://docs.python.org/3/search.html?q=zip I would expect the first match to be a link to https://doc