[Python-ideas] Help mode improvement.

[Terry Reedy]

On 10/11/2011 12:06 AM, Mike Meyer wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:39:31 +1100
> Steven D'Aprano<steve at pearwood.info>  wrote:

>> Perhaps help should be more aggressive at trying to find something
>> useful before giving up.
>
> Having help do a search if passed a string would qualify as "more
> aggressive", would be useful, and wouldn't break existing usage.

This strikes me as reinventing the wheel. We already have docs with both 
indexes and a search facility. I usually have them open when writing 
Python code.

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Terry Jan Reedy