Re: How to search the Python manuals

2008-08-24 Thread Terry Reedy
BJörn Lindqvist wrote: 2008/8/22 Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [snip] On the left, click [+] for Language Reference (3.0: The Python language reference). "Language Reference (for language lawyers)" Language Lawyer? That's almost as worser than Grammar Nazi, no wonder no one is finding

Re: How to search the Python manuals

2008-08-24 Thread BJörn Lindqvist
2008/8/22 Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [snip] > On the left, click [+] for Language Reference > (3.0: The Python language reference). "Language Reference (for language lawyers)" Language Lawyer? That's almost as worser than Grammar Nazi, no wonder no one is finding anything there. -- mvh

Re: How to search the Python manuals

2008-08-23 Thread Terry Reedy
JBW wrote: On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:17:16 -0400, Terry Reedy instructs a procedure for locating the behavior of default function arguments: -- For WinXP (I have no idea of how the manuals works elsewhere): Windows is against my religion, so I may be comple

Re: How to search the Python manuals

2008-08-23 Thread Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:00:57 +, JBW wrote: > It is much easier to find where to look if the documentation corpus has > a proper index. Since indexing is hard work that's effectively > impossible to automate, I suspect Python's documentation is no better > than many other open-source software

Re: How to search the Python manuals

2008-08-23 Thread JBW
On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:17:16 -0400, Terry Reedy instructs a procedure for locating the behavior of default function arguments: > -- For WinXP (I have no idea of how > the manuals works elsewhere): Windows is against my religion, so I may be completely off base

How to search the Python manuals

2008-08-22 Thread Terry Reedy
A number of questions asked here could easily be answered by a quick search of the Python Manuals. A prime example is about the behavior of default parameter values. A recent questioner ended the thread with "The problem with this particular question is that I found it hard to find a query th