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I always felt the official docs to be quite low in the rankings. For some reason python always has tons of tutorials for every possible situation, and those see

I always felt the official docs to be quite low in the rankings. For some reason python always has tons of tutorials for every possible situation, and those seem to bury the docs. Also the official docs are some too verbose and still don't have the detail I'm after. Maybe my second point is the reason for the first.

notreallyserio 5y ago
I often end up getting results only applicable to python 2. I really dislike that they changed the language so much without ensuring backwards compatibility or changing the name.
- dotancohen 5y ago
  Add "Python 3" (in quotes) to your google queries. In short time Google will figure it out and start sending you to Python 3 tutorials and docs. In fact, I think that's the default now. Google may have associated you with Python 2, but I'm getting almost all Python 3 results for any search Python related. You can also filter by time, but that's less useful because Python 2.7 pushed the end of life date so far back.
  - notreallyserio 5y ago
    Unfortunately a while back Google deprecated the use of quotes to indicate a "must" constraint. But it does still help somewhat.
    - genewitch 5y ago
      My biggest gripe about technology in general is getting used to how something works, and then, for no reason at all (apparently) it just gets changed. Google does this because a team wants to make a name so they do a retool or redesign, it is a line item on a budget sheet and a metric for bonuses or whatever. Users be damned. I've taken to freezing certain servers and never updating them just to fight back against this. I'm tired of breaking changes every few weeks. I'm tired of learning where an option was hid in this update, only to have it moved in the next one, and the next. As an industry, shame should be wielded to prevent this. Microsoft was never held accountable for their transgressions with excel and Word. It really opened the gates for every other development house to do the same thing, and now, a decade and a half later...

notreallyserio 5y ago

I often end up getting results only applicable to python 2. I really dislike that they changed the language so much without ensuring backwards compatibility or changing the name.

dotancohen 5y ago
Add "Python 3" (in quotes) to your google queries. In short time Google will figure it out and start sending you to Python 3 tutorials and docs. In fact, I think that's the default now. Google may have associated you with Python 2, but I'm getting almost all Python 3 results for any search Python related. You can also filter by time, but that's less useful because Python 2.7 pushed the end of life date so far back.
- notreallyserio 5y ago
  Unfortunately a while back Google deprecated the use of quotes to indicate a "must" constraint. But it does still help somewhat.
  - genewitch 5y ago
    My biggest gripe about technology in general is getting used to how something works, and then, for no reason at all (apparently) it just gets changed. Google does this because a team wants to make a name so they do a retool or redesign, it is a line item on a budget sheet and a metric for bonuses or whatever. Users be damned. I've taken to freezing certain servers and never updating them just to fight back against this. I'm tired of breaking changes every few weeks. I'm tired of learning where an option was hid in this update, only to have it moved in the next one, and the next. As an industry, shame should be wielded to prevent this. Microsoft was never held accountable for their transgressions with excel and Word. It really opened the gates for every other development house to do the same thing, and now, a decade and a half later...