Documentation suggestions

[Mark Jackson]

Steven Bethard <steven.bethard at gmail.com> writes:
> skip at pobox.com wrote:
> >     Iain> I like the Global Module Index in general - it allows quick access
> >     Iain> to exactly what I want.  I would like a minor change to it though
> >     Iain> - stop words starting with a given letter rolling over to another
> >     Iain> column (for example, os.path is at the foot of one column, while
> >     Iain> ossaudiodev is at the head of the next), and provide links to each
> >     Iain> initial letter at the top of the page.
> > 
> > I know it's not what you asked for, but give
> > 
> >     http://staging.musi-cal.com/modindex/
> > 
> > a try.  See if by dynamically migrating the most frequently requested
> > modules to the front of the section it becomes more manageable.
> 
> That's pretty cool.  What I don't know is how it would look after 
> thousands of people using it.  I know that I probably only have 10 
> modules or so that I consistently need to check the docs for.  Your hack 
> above would conveniently place those all at the top if I was the only 
> user.  But are those 10 modules the same 10 modules that other folks 
> need?  I don't know...
> 
> Of course, the only way to find out is to try...

Or you can just look up the module you need to write a 'bot to
constantly look up the docs for your favorite 10 modules. . . .

-- 
Mark Jackson - http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~mjackson
    If it made sense, that would be a very powerful idea.
				- Bruce Eric Kaplan