apropos / find context related information

Question

Hi folks,

On unix-like systems we have apropos to search the manual page names and descriptions so we can find context related information.

For example apropos delete would give me a list of all kinds of software related to "deleting" stuff. Does anybody know if that already exist for Python or do I have to code it?

What I basically want is the same semantics seen with the Unix apropos in Python ... find context related modules/functions/etc. I am not talking about doing a search on PyPi but rather find stuff when I am offline for example.

Cheers, Markus

Answer 1

I am not talking about doing a search on PyPI!

why not ? that should be the first thing you do if you want to look for Python modules. Otherwise simple search on google/yahoo may yield some results, such as this

Answer 2

$ apt-cache search <keyword> | grep python