[issue45378] Can't find "map" with search on docs.python.org

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: The iterator classes are not identified as such because being a class instead of a function, such as a generator function, is a CPython implementation detail, not a language requirement. Searching for filter seems as bad -- builtin filter is about the 60th

[issue45378] Can't find "map" with search on docs.python.org

Guido van Rossum added the comment: > I'm surprised no one else noticed this until now. Most people probably just use Google and read whatever comes up. I was looking whether the official docs for map mentioned that map is actually an iterator class. (They don't.) --

[issue45378] Can't find "map" with search on docs.python.org

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: I'm surprised no one else noticed this until now. The doc search finds some entries such as: "sum", "min", "max", and "enumerate". However, it is missing others such as: "map" and "filter". -- nosy: +rhettinger

[issue45378] Can't find "map" with search on docs.python.org

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[issue45378] Can't find "map" with search on docs.python.org

New submission from Guido van Rossum : I was looking for the docs for 'map' and tried to use the search box on docs.python.org. This gave a lot of things whose name started with or contained 'map', but the entry for the builtin map() function was hidden really far down under the heading