[pydotorg-www] Fwd: Suggestion: add more aliases for PEPs

[Georg Brandl]

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Am 03.09.2010 18:44, schrieb webmaster at python.org:
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 	Suggestion: add more aliases for PEPs
> Date: 	Fri, 3 Sep 2010 11:39:33 -0500
> From: 	Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com>
> To: 	webmaster at python.org
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> Would it be possible to add more aliases for PEP URLs to allow, e.g.,
> 
>   http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-370/
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> instead of
> 
>   http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0370/
> 
> I would like to set up a search engine shortcut in Google Chrome (or a
> Quick Search in Firefox) that would let me type "pep 370" in the URL
> field and bring up the appropriate page. As far as I know, you can
> only set up these search engine URLs to just put in the escaped form
> of the search term; there are no facilities for doing 0-padding.
> 
> When reading python-dev discussions, everyone just uses the PEP number
> and assumes that everyone knows what the PEP is about. Having a quick
> way to get to the PEPs (without remembering to 0-pad) would be help
> people keep track of what is going on more easily.

Google's "Feeling lucky" function brought up the PEP for me every time
when using "PEP <number>" as search terms.  So you should be able to use
a shortcut to that :)

Georg
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