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From: Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: python docs search for 'print'
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 18:44:12 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2012-09-04, Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 1:58 PM, David Hoese <dhoese@gmail.com> 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 interesting.  I always use google python <whatever> and
> get very results.  Not a correction for what you think isn't working
> well on python.org (I think I agree)., but if your friend is looking
> to learn, my suggestion works great

googling "site:python.org <whatever>" also works nicely if you know
what you want is on the python.org site.  I never bother with the
site's search function -- the results are always far better using
google.  [This isn't a particular fault of the python.org site, I find
the same is true for pretty much every site I've ever used.]

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