[issue43614] Search is not beginner friendly

Ammar Askar added the comment: Just a little update to this, now that issue34398 is fixed it is possible to make this more beginner friendly by making sure the right terms have glossary entries. As an example, here is a search for "argument" on the latest docs:

[issue43614] Search is not beginner friendly

Anthony Flury added the comment: Is PR 25045 the correct Pull request - this Issue is a documentation change - the linked PR is related to Issue 43433 (a change to xmlrpc.client ?) -- ___ Python tracker

[issue43614] Search is not beginner friendly

Change by Chris Angelico : -- keywords: +patch nosy: +Rosuav nosy_count: 5.0 -> 6.0 pull_requests: +23797 stage: -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/25045 ___ Python tracker

[issue43614] Search is not beginner friendly

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[issue43614] Search is not beginner friendly

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Ha! I just was going to open the same issue (perhaps we read the same post on Quora). I concur that it is perhaps worth to add index entries for common parameter names (args, kwargs, self, cls) and also for *args and **kwargs and add notions that such

[issue43614] Search is not beginner friendly

New submission from Anthony Flury : A commonly asked question on Quora is 'What do *args and **kwargs' mean ? While it is relatively easy for community to answer these questions the search tool on the standard documentation doesn't make it easy. I understand that 'args' and 'kwargs' are both