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Does python not have built in documentation search? In R I use `??searchterm`.

• azeirah 4y ago
  It has help(), but I don't think there's a nice search feature included. I mean you could use string methods to search for something of course, help just returns a string. Then again, it's Python. There's probably some kind of import search from helpTools Or something among those lines, because... it always has this kind of stuff
  • westurner 4y ago
    The `pydoc` / `python -m pydoc` module doesn't do search; it would be O(n) for every search like grep without e.g. a sphinx searchindex: https://docs.python.org/3/library/pydoc.html https://docs.python.org/3/library/pydoc.html Sphinx searchindex.js does Porter stemming for English and other languages: https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/blob/5.x/sphinx/search/en.py https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/blob/5.x/sphinx/search/... sphinxcontrib.websupport.search supports Xapian, Whoosh (Python), and null: https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinxcontrib-websupport/blob/master/sphinxcontrib/websupport/search/__init__.py https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinxcontrib-websupport/blob/... sphinx-elasticsearch https://github.com/zeitonline/sphinx_elasticsearch https://github.com/zeitonline/sphinx_elasticsearch : > This is a stand-alone extraction of the functionality used by readthedocs.org, compatible with elasticsearch-6. MeiliSearch (rust) compared with ElasticSearch (java), Algolia, TypeSense (C++): https://docs.meilisearch.com/learn/what_is_meilisearch/comparison_to_alternatives.html#about-meilisearch https://docs.meilisearch.com/learn/what_is_meilisearch/compa... Is there a good way to index each sphinx doc set's searchindex.js?