On Apr 13, 2005, at 10:32 AM, Jeremy Hylton wrote:
On 4/13/05, Bob Ippolito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Before docs.python.org, when I did the same searches, I always ended up
with garbage from mailing list archives -- not real documentation.
I agree mailing list archives are a problem, but I used to get by just fine with regular search. To the extent that I still get useful results, the documentation comes from mirror sites.
I remember that when I was learning the C API, google was hardly useful at all because of the over-abundance of mailing list results and random source code snippets.. with site:docs.python.org, I have no problems. This was the major reason I submitted a feature request to create docs.python.org in the first place, so you can blame it on me (but obviously at least one person with access to implement also thought it was a good idea).
Just try searching for PyObject_GetAttr with and without site:docs.python.org
Additionally, docs.python.org ensures that you find the latest documentation. Without it, you'll often end up with junk from 1.5, 2.1, etc.
-bob
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