Top 10 Language Constructs (Phyton)

Aahz Maruch aahz at netcom.com
Fri Jul 14 14:51:49 EDT 2000


In article <8kn71u02nn4 at news2.newsguy.com>,
Alex Martelli <alex at magenta.com> wrote:
>"Dinu C. Gherman" <gherman at darwin.in-berlin.de> wrote in message
>news:396EE7BC.DA2FA7B3 at darwin.in-berlin.de...
>>
>> I doubt this will be very useful, like the answer to the
>> question: "Which are the ten most used words in English?".
>
>That one is pretty useful, actually (it identifies the all-too-
>frequent words, like 'the', 'of', etc, which a full-text search
>engine had better just skip over:-).

That's wrong.  How do you search for the phrase "the White House"?

(Trust me, this is one area I'm a real expert.)
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