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Fill in what you need; it becomes a normal search you can edit and share. Every option is also an operator you can type.

Find pages with

all these words

this exact phrase

Type it as "climate change"

none of these words

Type it as -word

Narrow the results

site or domain

site:python.org (subdomains too)

words in the title

intitle:tutorial or intitle:"getting started"

word in the URL

inurl:docs

file type any pdfdocdocxxlsxlsxpptpptxtxtcsvxmlrssepub

filetype:pdf: matched by the URL ending. We index the text of web pages; many files are found this way, not all.

dated after

dated before

after:2024 before:2025-06: the page's own publish date when it states one, otherwise when we first indexed it.

time any time past daypast weekpast monthpast year

The page's own publish date, or else when we first indexed it.

sort by relevancedate (newest first)

verbatim your words as typed: no spelling fixes, no partial matches

Links

pages that link to

link:python.org: from our own crawl (only links on pages we have read). Add words to filter the linking sites.

sites like

related:python.org: sites linked from the same pages, the same directory group and subtopic.

Search

All operators

• "exact phrase" (alone or in a longer search), -word and -"a phrase" (leave out), tea OR coffee (OR in capitals), site:example.com
• intitle:word, intitle:"two words", inurl:word, filetype:pdf
• after:2024, before:2025-06-30
• link:example.com, link:example.com/page, related:example.com
• On the results page: Sort by relevance or date, and Verbatim.

An operator we can't read (a date like after:soon) is searched as ordinary words.

Examples of everything you can type, quick answers too: Search help.