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Quick Search in Python Resources
- These are minimalistic quick search forms. For more elaborate
interfaces, click on the "advanced search" links below.
- Can't find what you're looking for? Here are some suggestions. Just plain lost? Get help!
Other Python search engines
Where to search?
- If you're looking for a particular module and you know its name
(e.g. Pmw), try searching the website, the ftp site, and starship for
its name (with and without capitalization if you know it); also try
the PyModules FAQ (on Starship).
- If you're looking for a module that does a particular thing but
you don't know whether it exists or what it would be called, search
those same sites, giving some keywords (e.g. CORBA or COM). If you're
looking for a Windows or Mac solution, it often makes sense to add the
target platform name to the query. (For Unix, explicitly requiring
the platform is usually not a good idea, since it is often assumed by
default.)
- If the previous bullet doesn't give you a useful result, try the
same query on the SIG archives (simply check the box under the search
input field). What you are looking for may be too specialized to have
found a place on the website yet. If all else fails, search the
newsgroups (the second input field above).
- If you have a problem installing or using Python, the best place
to start is the FAQ (the third input field above), followed by the
newsgroups, and then the SIG archives. If you get a specific error
message that you don't understand, try entering the entire message (in
double quotes is usually best) as a query, but leaving out any
obviously variable parts (like a pathname on your system or a module
name you just entered).
- Note that there are some patches
for Python 1.5.1; read through the list describing the patches to
see if they could explain what you're seeing.
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