General questions - where & how

[Terry Reedy]

On 6/4/2010 1:35 PM, Philip Semanchuk wrote:
>
> On Jun 4, 2010, at 1:22 PM, Uriah Eisenstein wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> I'm relatively new to Python and have a few questions. Frankly, it
>> took me a
>> while to find on python.org what seems like a suitable place to post my
>> questions. However, I'd like to check the archives and see if they
>> haven't
>> been discussed already...
>
> Good thinking!
>
>
>> But I don't find a Search function. Is there such
>> a thing?
>
> I use Google's "site" keyword search. e.g. to search the archives for
> "banana":
> http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Amail.python.org%2Fpipermail%2Fpython-list%2F++banana

One can also search mailing lists mirrored and archived by gmane
http://search.gmane.org/
This is gmane.comp.python.general. There are about 200 other g.c.python 
lists/groups that are more specialized. I have no idea about comparitive 
performance.

Terry Jan Reedy