Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed6.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.002 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'algorithm': 0.03; '(python': 0.05; 'terry': 0.09; 'to:addr:comp.lang.python': 0.09; 'cc:addr:python-list': 0.10; 'contribute': 0.10; 'subject:python': 0.11; "(it's": 0.16; '3.2)': 0.16; '750$': 0.16; 'did,': 0.16; 'reedy': 0.16; 'subject:search': 0.16; 'useless.': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.17; 'version.': 0.17; 'jan': 0.18; 'skip:" 30': 0.20; 'setup,': 0.22; 'wednesday,': 0.22; 'cc:2**0': 0.23; 'cc:no real name:2**0': 0.24; 'cc:addr:python.org': 0.25; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.25; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.26; 'am,': 0.27; 'all.': 0.28; 'restricted': 0.29; 'searches': 0.29; 'this.': 0.29; "i'm": 0.29; 'maybe': 0.29; 'ease': 0.30; 'function': 0.30; 'code': 0.31; 'not.': 0.32; 'could': 0.32; 'print': 0.32; 'docs': 0.33; 'impression': 0.33; 'version': 0.34; 'received:google.com': 0.34; 'third': 0.34; 'received:209.85': 0.35; 'something': 0.35; 'but': 0.36; 'should': 0.36; 'python.org': 0.37; 'quite': 0.37; 'received:209': 0.37; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'positive': 0.38; 'gives': 0.39; 'performance': 0.39; 'google': 0.39; 'think': 0.40; 'easy': 0.60; 'costs': 0.64; 'improvement.': 0.65; '150,000': 0.84; 'secret,': 0.84 Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 05:45:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=122.167.254.242; posting-account=uPFZNQoAAAAm9w7z13q1SjWNKNjztdcD References: <9b4e3057-30a0-4731-95d2-131bfa495904@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true X-Google-IP: 122.167.254.242 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: python docs search for 'print' From: Ramchandra Apte To: comp.lang.python@googlegroups.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: python-list@python.org X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Message-ID: Lines: 44 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1346849109 news.xs4all.nl 6921 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:58481 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:28479 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. The current search performance is not a secret, so mere > > >> complaints are useless. > > > > > I was thinking we could just use Google Site search (it's fast easy to > > > setup and gives good results) > > > > I have the impression that that is what we once did, but maybe not. Or > > maybe that is or was for python.org but not docs.python.org, etc. Ease > > version of the docs needs the search restricted to that version. If you > > can give the way to do the easy setup, with that constraint, that would > > be a positive suggestion, accepted or not. > > > > > > -- > > Terry Jan Reedy Google site search costs 2000$ for 500,000 searches per year and 750$ for 150,000 searches so its quite expensive. Also the print function only comes in the third result (python 3.2) if you search for "site:docs.python.org/release/3.2 print" the print function is not found at all. I think a specialized algorithm would work better. I'm going to code an program for this.