[TriLUG] Google Code Search

[Andrew Perrin]

It's a regex search; how about trying:

\WMPI\W lang:python

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On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Chris Calloway wrote:

> OlsonE at aosa.army.mil wrote:
>> http://www.google.com/codesearch/advanced_code_search
>
> This is funny. Regular Google only searches for full words and not fragments.
>
> I entered "MPI," one of my interests, in a search of Python software beyond 
> the MPI modules in SciPy I'm aware of.
>
> I got back everything that had the word "compile" in it, with characters 
> "MPI" highlighted in the middle of the word. :)
>
> Thus, rendering the huge number of results fairly useless.
>
> However, it will search for 'punctuation' character sequences like "::" or 
> "<<" which regular Google ignores.
>
> Luckily, I enjoy life without braces, though. So this is not a biggy for me. 
> :)
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