Searching for Python triple-quote strings

warpspin

I am not sure whether this is worth improving or not: Today I searched for https://kagi.com/search?q=python+%22%22%22 to maybe find wherever triple-quoted strings in the Python documentation is explained. Of course, this collides with the general phrase search syntax of Kagi itself. It looks as if the whole """ thing was simply ignored.

I do not know whether the upstream sources would even support searching for a """ token, but if yes, it would be a nice touch if this would work, as the interpretation as phrase search makes no sense anyway.

z64

Have not looked into this in detail yet (do any other engines give better results?), but just logging an observation that Quick Answer gives me a succinct response in this example:

warpspin

z64 No, other engines do not give better results. Searching symbols is not the strength of most engines, especially when the symbols collide with the search syntax.

The quick answer, while remarkable that it DID search for the proper thing, is not really useful when you're interested in details (I did already know, what """ is for roughly, but wanted to lookup details like interpolation syntax and if there's automatic stripping of whitespace within triple quotes ;-) So it would have needed to include a link to https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#string-and-bytes-literals or some other detail article to be useful. Had to finally locate this myself by clicking through their docs as python.org's search engine dislikes symbol searches, too.

I do not really fault Kagi for not answering this (which is why I filed as suggestion, not as bug) but a comprehensive answer would have WOWed me.