Searching pypi.org, is there an 'advanced search'?

[Avi Gross]

Chris,

Just a bit off topic, but google does have some advanced features such as using the word AND or putting something in quotes to make it search for the combination written the same way. 

Some of the tricks work for other search engines too. Google does have an advanced search feature here:

https://www.google.com/advanced_search

For example you may insist on ALL THESE WORDS for a page to be shown or words not to be on the page and more such as only find things on some web site.

Good luck.

I did such a search for having both google and contacts on just pypi.org and got only 2050 results! LOL!

https://www.google.com/search?as_q=google+contacts&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=pypi.org&as_occt=any&safe=images&as_filetype=&tbs=




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Subject: Searching pypi.org, is there an 'advanced search'?

Every time I go to pypi.org to look for a neat utility or something I curse the stupid search.

Is there really no better search available?  Apart from anything else it appears to OR the elements together so, for example, I wanted to search for programs/libraries that will allow me to access Google
Contacts:-

    Putting the words Google and Contacts in the search box produces
    more than 10000 hits.  

    Putting just Google in the search box produces 8,629 projects.

So, it would appear the terms are OR'ed together, surely OR'ing terms in a search (by default) went out with the ark!

When I put 'Google contacts' in the search box I want projects that have both 'Google' AND 'Contacts' in their description somewhere!
(... and, no, I tried 'Google AND Contacts', still more than 10000 results).

pypi.org is a wonderful resource but its size now demands a better search engine.

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