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Thanks, Zeal looks interesting until one tries to use it.

I've installed Zeal and installed the Python documentation. I can see the Python tree (among others that I've installed) in the sidebar. But searching for "python append to list" or "append to list" return 0 results. In the preferences I enabled fuzzy search, still no results.

So I turned to the tree to see how easy it would be able to find the answer. I opened the Python leaf, and from the 15 subleaves I opened Structures. In there I see "PyCompilerFlags", "_frozen", and "_inittab".

I'll be sticking to Google, unfortunately.




> So I turned to the tree to see how easy it would be able to find the answer

Python3 -> Classes -> list

I agree it's not easy enough to use the search for this particular case (it's actually very difficult to find the list "add" -- list.append). I'm going to stick it out with zeal, though, and see if I get better at finding what I want.

Some similar searches in other languages gave back what I wanted, so maybe it's got to do with how the python docs were imported or something.




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