Python files vs Paraguayan domains

3 points by WillyNourson 11y ago ↗ HN

Am I the only one annoyed when Google Chrome tries to lookup for a Paraguayan domain when I search for a python file (e.g alignlib.py ) directly from the adress bar? Is there a way to prevent this? Thanks in advance.

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S4M 11y ago ↗

How about entering:

     python alignlib.py

JadeNB 11y ago ↗

What if you want to read about the snakes of Paraguay (http://animals.pawnation.com/snakes-paraguay-6701.html)? :-)

Of course I'm being facetious, but I think that 0x006A's point (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8267484) is a good one—this sort of attempt to be (in my opinion, too) clever will always eventually run into undesireable edge cases.

0x006A 11y ago ↗

Right now you can only get .py domains as subdomains of these second-level domains:

  - com.py
  - coop.py
  - edu.py
  - mil.py
  - gov.py
  - org.py
  - net.py
  - una.py

And there are some domains used like nic.py. Possibly Chrome could fall back to search if its not one of the subdomains.

But this is clearly a case where the idea of search box and url bar in one field does not work. This will happen more often as we get more of those random TLDs.

McDiesel 11y ago ↗

put a ? before it...

address bar of [? alignlib.py] searches for alignlib.py ... not sure if this is intentional or just htat google drops special chars, but it works 100% of the time most of the time.

brudgers 11y ago ↗

Is there a way to prevent this?

Use a browser with separate search and location fields [such as Firefox]. Type search terms into the search field when searching.

For convenience, the search field in browsers with separate search field can receive focus using ctrl-k key combination.