[Python-Dev] Searching Python docs (Was: Python sidebar for Mozilla/Netscape) (original) (raw)

M.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com
Fri, 05 Apr 2002 18:44:07 +0200

Thomas Heller wrote:

From: "Tom Emerson" <tree@basistech.com> > Thomas Heller writes: > > I'm interested in feedback: Is it usefull at all? Should > > something like this go into the Python distribution? How can it be > > improved? What should be the user interface - currently it is command > > line only and usable from the interactive interpreter programmatically. > > Cool: I had to modify it slightly to run correctly on my system > (FreeBSD 4.4 with Lynx) (change below) but otherwise it's great. I've implemented your change, and I have already extended it to also work as a CGI script. The preliminary version is online at http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/cgi-bin/pyhelp.cgi Anyway, at least on one question I would really like to get more answers : when writing python code or C extensions, how do people quickly look up definitions of functions, let's say PyObjectGCNew() or the meaning of METHO ?

grep in the Include/ dir, possibly followed by a less session :-)

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