Kim Oldfield added the comment:
Usually the search page is the quickest way to find documentation about a
module or function - quicker than navigating through a couple of levels of
pages (documentation home, index, index by letter, scroll or search in page to
find desired name, click on name).
Searching for builtin functions is inconsistent. Some functions (eg getattr)
are found as expected in a search, while other functions (eg zip and many
others) aren't found in the search results. This could easily lead someone to
incorrectly concluding that the function they are search for doesn't exist in
python.
I find the response of "The search page is the last thing one should use"
strange. Surely as the option to search is there, and it mostly works, we
should be making incremental improvements as necessary to make it better so
that everyone can easily find the right parts of the python documentation.
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