[Python-Dev] Python sidebar for Mozilla/Netscape (original) (raw)

Aahz aahz@pythoncraft.com
Fri, 5 Apr 2002 11:32:36 -0500

Disclaimer: IANAL

On Fri, Apr 05, 2002, Guido van Rossum wrote:

I have a version that allows searching the docs by utilizing google.com, but unfortunately google license prohibits querying google from a program :( Is that so ? I think it is. Read http://www.google.com/termsofservice.html

Now that I've read the entire thing, I have to agree that it's stricter than the little snippet posted earlier...

If yes, then we'll have to remove scripts/google.py from the Python distro. I don't think so -- the google.py code doesn't read the Google output, it tells your browser to read it. Big difference. (urlopen(), on the other hand, would be a no-no.)

...but I disagree with your assertion about urlopen() -- as long as the output gets rendered directly by a browser-like interface for on-line interactive human use, I believe there's no contravention of the ToS. (If your assertion were correct, one wouldn't be able to write a browser in Python. ;-)

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