[Tutor] Copy Files, Dates

Michael Janssen Janssen@rz.uni-frankfurt.de
Sat Apr 19 10:21:01 2003


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On Sat, 19 Apr 2003, Alan Gauld wrote:

> Finding the right module is one of the hardest bits of learning
> Python...

Here is a script, that helps the learner a bit: it searches
lib/genindex.html for the function name given on commandline and display
its documentation (by now via lynx --> LINUX. webbrowser modul possibly
brings better portability). In this case (looking for copy but didn't find
shutil) it would report 8 links, which isn't that helpfull for a poor
beginner even if some links are irrelevant on first sight. But who knows?

This can also be down by browsing genindex.html but this costs a lot of
time (genindex.html loads slow) and mouseclicks. Which is the second
advantage of my script: You needn't to leave the console and you save
mouseclicks :-)

I suggest to make an alias from manpy (or some such) to 'python
/path/to/manpy.py' to spare even chars.

Comments are welcome. Does anyone believe a script like this is indeed
helpfull for the beginner (and should be propagated)?

Michael

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