[SciPy-user] looking for lookfor

[Steven H. Rogers]

On Fri, May 4, 2007 10:26, Laurent Perrinet wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> hope this is not off-topic. I'm sometimes lost in the richness of
> scipy possibilities and I am looking for a function that could search
> in the docstrings for particular keywords... (i'm sure that as many
> other users, we're googling that). there is an equivalent in matlab
> called lookfor which searches in the whole path all functions
> containing the given keyword.
>
> does a similar function exist for scipy? and more generally (i)python?
>

We started looking into this at the IPython1 Sprint last month.  We don't
yet have anything to show other than a wiki page.

http://ipython.scipy.org/moin/Developer_Zone/SearchDocs

Ideas and other help are welcome.

# Steve