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Re: Verbose and flexible args and kwargs syntax

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  Re: Verbose and flexible args and kwargs syntax Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-12-12 11:37 +1100
    Re: Verbose and flexible args and kwargs syntax Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2011-12-12 21:25 +1300

#16996 — Re: Verbose and flexible args and kwargs syntax

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Eelco Hoogendoorn
<hoogendoorn.eelco@gmail.com> wrote:
> Googling 'myprogramminglanguage conceptimtryingtofigureout' is my first,
> second and third line of defence. Yes, I could read the reference manual
> from top to bottom, and if I already knew about the existence of your
> article then im sure that would be a great help too.

Python in particular has very poor internal search. I don't recommend
searching the Python docs for anything that you can search for
externally using Google, duckduckgo, etc, etc.

ChrisA

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#17021

For what it's worth, googling for "python asterisk"
gives this as the very first result:

   http://www.technovelty.org/code/python/asterisk.html

which tells you exactly what you're probably wanting
to know if you ask that.

To check that this phenomemon isn't restricted to
asterisks in particular, I also tried "python plus
equals" and got

   http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2347265/what-does-plus-equals-do-in-python

which is also a pretty good result.

So the rule of thumb seems to be: if you're trying to
google for punctuation, try spelling it out.

-- 
Greg

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