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

[Paul Moore]

On 18 September 2014 23:20, Andrew Barnert <abarnert at 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