Tim Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You could have gotten to the same place in several ways. [snip]
Since I'm a unix person, I would have typed pydoc -k sort But it doesn't come up with anything useful :-( $ pydoc -k sort MySQLdb.stringtimes - Use strings to handle date and time columns as a last resort. ... In fact I've never had any luck with pydoc -k. I think what it searches through is too narrow - from its man page Run "pydoc -k <keyword>" to search for a keyword in the synopsis lines of all available modules. This is the NAME line that appears in pydoc I think. If it did a full text search that would be much more useful, or at least a search through all the names of the functions & variables that are exported. ... My top wish for pydoc is to have the rest of the documentation in it! Each module has lots of nice documentation which is only available in HTML format - I'd much rather type "pydoc whatever" to see it all, rather than have to load my browser, and click through several layers of web pages. -- Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list