Survey: improving the Python std lib docs

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Fri May 12 07:14:01 EDT 2017


On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 8:02 PM, Steve D'Aprano
<steve+python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> (2) The PHP documentation allows you to search for a term by typing it into
> the URL after the domain, e.g. to search for "split", go to:
>
> http://php.net/split
>
>
> If you try the same thing with the Python docs:
>
> http://python.org/split
>
> you get a 404. Suggestion: 404s should redirect and search the docs.

So long as we're talking about the existing search functionality, I'm
a big NO on this one. It's way too slow to be used as a general 404.

ChrisA



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