Python files vs Paraguayan domains

[WillyNourson]

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.

[0x006A]

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.

[brudgers]

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.

[McDiesel]

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.

[S4M]

How about entering:

     python alignlib.py

[JadeNB]

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.