Re: [Python-ideas] The stdlib++ user experience (Was: Introduce `start=1` argument to `math.factorial`)

On 18 September 2014 23:20, Andrew Barnert abarnert@yahoo.com wrote:

Hold on. I'm pretty sure that the intended answer to this problem has, for years, been that you go and search PyPI. Is that too broken to use, or are people just not aware of it?

Sorry, I should have mentioned that. I've found that PyPI search is great for getting packages named like you expect, but a lot worse when you have something vague ("website scraping" didn't bring up html5lib, BeautifulSoup or lxml, all of which are tools I've used in the past). So I tend to not bother these days on the assumption that it'll just be another dead end. I know, I'm old and cynical, sorry ;-)

Paul