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Show HN: A search engine for python syntax

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Hi, I recently found myself spending a lot of time searching for syntax. Hence, I built a search engine that returns the snippets you are looking for right away. I would love to get your feedback!

This is great! I added it as a custom search engine with the keyword 'py' in chrome. Just right click the search field and click 'Add as Search Engine'!

Wow, Great! This is amazing. Do you think you'll expand the search into the police database? I could really use a way in there

This is cool dude! Are you planning on expanding beyond Python? I use C/C++ at work, and this could be very useful for me.

Yes! But before working on adding support for all languages I wanted to have an idea if this was something people would find useful.

awesome! is this code on github?

https://twitter.com/RealPython/status/540200875797405696

Thanks for tweeting! Not right now...

Is "syntax" the right word there?

Please elaborate.

instead of "search over syntax", something more specific like

    "text, wildcard or regex search"

over (as an example)

    "stackoverflow, standard library, langauge spec for cpython, 
    400 most popular libs on github/pip/package index/ (whatever)"

e.g. here's a search engine for scala that lets you use type signatures: http://scalex.org/

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really useful search engine, just needs clarification on the database contents and what kinds of searches you can do.

amazing! in a python intro class now and this will definitely help with my assignments!

I am happy this can be helpful to you!

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