Re: python docs search for 'print'

2012-09-06 Thread Terry Reedy
On 9/6/2012 10:01 AM, David Hoese wrote: On 9/5/12 3:03 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2012-09-05, Dave Angel wrote: >On 09/05/2012 01:47 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > >>Making the site's "search" box use Google or somesuch is probably the >>simplest solution. I'm not enough of a web guy to know ho

Re: python docs search for 'print'

2012-09-06 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 06/09/2012 15:01, David Hoese wrote: On 9/5/12 3:03 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2012-09-05, Dave Angel wrote: >On 09/05/2012 01:47 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > >>Making the site's "search" box use Google or somesuch is probably the >>simplest solution. I'm not enough of a web guy to know how

python docs search for 'print'

2012-09-06 Thread David Hoese
On 9/5/12 3:03 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2012-09-05, Dave Angel wrote: >On 09/05/2012 01:47 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > >>Making the site's "search" box use Google or somesuch is probably the >>simplest solution. I'm not enough of a web guy to know how to do >>that, but I do know that some si

Re: python docs search for 'print'

2012-09-06 Thread Ramchandra Apte
On Thursday, 6 September 2012 01:54:45 UTC+5:30, Walter Hurry wrote: > On Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:03:16 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote: > > > > > On 9/5/2012 8:45 AM, Ramchandra Apte wrote: > > > > > > > These ever increasing extra blank lines with each quote are obnoxious. > > > Consider using a n

Re: python docs search for 'print'

2012-09-05 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:03:16 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 9/5/2012 8:45 AM, Ramchandra Apte wrote: > These ever increasing extra blank lines with each quote are obnoxious. > Consider using a news reader with news.gmane.org instead of google crap. > Or snip heavily. +1. And the duplicated post

Re: python docs search for 'print'

2012-09-05 Thread Terry Reedy
On 9/5/2012 8:45 AM, Ramchandra Apte wrote: On Wednesday, 5 September 2012 15:03:56 UTC+5:30, Terry Reedy wrote: On 9/5/2012 1:22 AM, Ramchandra Apte wrote: On Wednesday, 5 September 2012 09:35:43 UTC+5:30, Terry Reedy wrote: If you do find the right place, you should contribute somethi

Mailergate (was: python docs search for 'print')

2012-09-05 Thread Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn
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Re: python docs search for 'print'

2012-09-05 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-09-05, Dave Angel wrote: > On 09/05/2012 01:47 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> Making the site's "search" box use Google or somesuch is probably the >> simplest solution. I'm not enough of a web guy to know how to do >> that, but I do know that some sites do handle site search that way. >> >

Re: python docs search for 'print'

2012-09-05 Thread Dave Angel
On 09/05/2012 01:47 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2012-09-05, Terry Reedy wrote: >> On 9/4/2012 11:22 PM, Ramchandra Apte wrote: >> >>> I was actually planning to write a bug on this. >> If you do, find the right place to submit it. >> bugs.python.org is for issues relating to the cpython reposito

Re: python docs search for 'print'

2012-09-05 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-09-05, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 9/4/2012 11:22 PM, Ramchandra Apte wrote: > >> I was actually planning to write a bug on this. > > If you do, find the right place to submit it. > bugs.python.org is for issues relating to the cpython repository.' > I fairly sure that the website search code

Re: python docs search for 'print'

2012-09-05 Thread Ramchandra Apte
On Wednesday, 5 September 2012 15:03:56 UTC+5:30, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 9/5/2012 1:22 AM, Ramchandra Apte wrote: > > > On Wednesday, 5 September 2012 09:35:43 UTC+5:30, Terry Reedy wrote: > > > > >> If you do find the right place, you should contribute something to an > > >> improvement. T

Re: python docs search for 'print'

2012-09-05 Thread Terry Reedy
On 9/5/2012 1:22 AM, Ramchandra Apte wrote: On Wednesday, 5 September 2012 09:35:43 UTC+5:30, Terry Reedy wrote: If you do find the right place, you should contribute something to an improvement. The current search performance is not a secret, so mere complaints are useless. I was thinking

Re: python docs search for 'print'

2012-09-04 Thread Ramchandra Apte
On Wednesday, 5 September 2012 09:35:43 UTC+5:30, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 9/4/2012 11:22 PM, Ramchandra Apte wrote: > > > > > I was actually planning to write a bug on this. > > > > If you do, find the right place to submit it. > > bugs.python.org is for issues relating to the cpython repos

Re: python docs search for 'print'

2012-09-04 Thread Terry Reedy
On 9/4/2012 11:22 PM, Ramchandra Apte wrote: I was actually planning to write a bug on this. If you do, find the right place to submit it. bugs.python.org is for issues relating to the cpython repository.' I fairly sure that the website search code is not there. If you do find the right place

Re: python docs search for 'print'

2012-09-04 Thread Dwight Hutto
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Re: python docs search for 'print'

2012-09-04 Thread Ramchandra Apte
On Tuesday, 4 September 2012 23:29:26 UTC+5:30, David Hoese wrote: > A friend made me aware of this: > > When a python beginner (2.x) quick searches for "print" on > > docs.python.org, the print function doesn't even come up in the top 20 > > results. The print statement isn't even listed as

Re: python docs search for 'print'

2012-09-04 Thread Ben Finney
Steven D'Aprano writes: > Gah! Brain meltdown! DDG does better on searches for Python terms with > fewer extraneous meanings, e.g. "python print" finds many links about > fashion, but https://duckduckgo.com/html/?q=python+tuple is all about > Python tuples :) Adding the “site:docs.python.org”

Re: python docs search for 'print'

2012-09-04 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 18:28:31 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > https://www.google.com.au/search?q=python+print > http://duckduckgo.com/html/?q=python+print > > In this case, google hits the right Python documentation on the first > link. Duckduckgo doesn't do nearly so well, but it comes up with a

Re: python docs search for 'print'

2012-09-04 Thread Terry Reedy
On 9/4/2012 6:32 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 1:58 PM, David Hoese wrote: A friend made me aware of this: When a python beginner (2.x) quick searches for "print" on docs.python.org, the print function doesn't even come up in the top 20 results. In the Windows Help version o

Re: python docs search for 'print'

2012-09-04 Thread Terry Reedy
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 1:58 PM, David Hoese wrote: A friend made me aware of this: When a python beginner (2.x) quick searches for "print" on docs.python.org, the print function doesn't even come up in the top 20 results. In the Windows Help version of the docs, enter print in the index tab

Re: python docs search for 'print'

2012-09-04 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 04/09/2012 19:38, William R. Wing (Bill Wing) wrote: On Sep 4, 2012, at 1:58 PM, David Hoese wrote: A friend made me aware of this: When a python beginner (2.x) quick searches for "print" on docs.python.org, the print function doesn't even come up in the top 20 results. The print statemen

Re: python docs search for 'print'

2012-09-04 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-09-04, Joel Goldstick wrote: > On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 1:58 PM, David Hoese wrote: >> A friend made me aware of this: >> When a python beginner (2.x) quick searches for "print" on >> docs.python.org, the print function doesn't even come up in the top >> 20 results. > > That's pretty intere

Re: python docs search for 'print'

2012-09-04 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 20:27:38 +0200, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: > ¹ The other mess they created (or allowed to be created) is this mashup >of newsgroup and mailing list, neither of which works properly, In what way do they not work properly? >because >the underlying protocols

Re: python docs search for 'print'

2012-09-04 Thread William R. Wing (Bill Wing)
On Sep 4, 2012, at 1:58 PM, David Hoese wrote: > A friend made me aware of this: > When a python beginner (2.x) quick searches for "print" on docs.python.org, > the print function doesn't even come up in the top 20 results. The print > statement isn't even listed as far as I can tell. Is ther

Re: python docs search for 'print'

2012-09-04 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 13:58:43 -0400, David Hoese wrote: > A friend made me aware of this: > When a python beginner (2.x) quick searches for "print" on > docs.python.org, the print function doesn't even come up in the top 20 > results. The print statement isn't even listed as far as I can tell. Is

Re: python docs search for 'print'

2012-09-04 Thread Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn
David Hoese wrote: > A friend made me aware of this: > When a python beginner (2.x) quick searches for "print" on > docs.python.org, the print function doesn't even come up in the top 20 > results. The print statement isn't even listed as far as I can tell. > Is there something that can be done a

Re: python docs search for 'print'

2012-09-04 Thread Joel Goldstick
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 1:58 PM, David Hoese wrote: > A friend made me aware of this: > When a python beginner (2.x) quick searches for "print" on docs.python.org, > the print function doesn't even come up in the top 20 results. > -Dave > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list T

python docs search for 'print'

2012-09-04 Thread David Hoese
A friend made me aware of this: When a python beginner (2.x) quick searches for "print" on docs.python.org, the print function doesn't even come up in the top 20 results. The print statement isn't even listed as far as I can tell. Is there something that can be done about this to make it easi