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

[Robert Kern]

On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 13:04, Georg Brandl <georg at python.org> wrote:
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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.,
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>>   http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-370/
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>> instead of
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>>   http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0370/
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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> 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 :)

http://google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&btnI=1&q=pep+%s

Works for me! Thanks!

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless
enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as
though it had an underlying truth."
  -- Umberto Eco