Thomas Heller posted a new Python search tool script for the Python manuals. Here's the announcement:
"A new Python-powered search engine is online at
http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/pyhelp.cgi
It searches for keywords in the Python manuals at http://www.python.org/doc/.
The script can also be downloaded, and can be configured to search HTML manual pages installed locally. The keyword index is build on the fly. It can also (probably) be easily integrated in your editor/ide to provide context sensitive help."
This is one of those cases, where Google - even when doing a site-specific search - often doesn't work as well as a topic-specific search tool. This script can be configured to search locally or remotely and the local search can include your own documentation. This could probably be integrated with pydoc or turned into a standalone desktop docs search tool.
I have the Python docs in Microsoft Help format, which has its own index and search built-in, but for some reason I generally end up looking at the plain HTML versions of the docs. What is even stranger, is that I find myself using the online HTML rather than the version on my desktop, which probably says something about habits.
I would still like to have a Google on the desktop that integrates the search results on my local hard disk with the web.
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