Searching Python Manuals

[dsavitsk]

google's advanced search will let you limit the domain that you search in,
so limit yourself to python.org.

-d


"Alexander Schmolck" <a.schmolck at gmx.net> wrote in message
news:yfsy99b4wvu.fsf at black132.ex.ac.uk...
> "Matt Gerrans" <mgerrans at mindspring.com> writes:
>
> > Is there some way to to search the Python manuals, other than grepping
> > through all the html files?   I use ActiveState's help file on the
Windows
> > platform for this purpose, but it only seems to work on certain
platforms
> > (;-).
> >
>
> I exclusively use the 'info' version of the python manuals for exactly the
> reason that it is fully searchable and very fast to navigate (*much*
faster
> than the hideous interface a webbrowser offers for the same
> purpose). Unfortunately, there is no info version of the 2.2.1 docs, but
one
> for 2.2 can be found here:
>
> http://www.python.org/ftp/python/doc/2.2/info-2.2.tgz
>
> alex