Finding Out was a British weekly educational magazine for kids, published between 1962 and 1967, and running for 240 issues. It contained articles on a wide variety of topics, including maths, science, history, geography, and French. It was quite similar to Look and Learn, and ultimately merged with that magazine at the end of its run. More historical details can be found at the Look and Learn Archive site.
The scanned indicies available here come from a PDF document that was included with my purchase of the comics in electronic form. Unlike my Look and Learn and World of Wonder indicies, the data wasn't published in the original magazines.
Disclaimer: OCR can be inaccurate even with the best of input images. I've tried to correct all the errors, but it's a certainty that I've missed some. If you find any, please send me a quick e-mail and I'll update the material. Thanks.
Two Indexing Schemes: The first 72 issues of Finding Out were simply numbered 1 to 72, and the page numbering was retained throughout, so that issue #72 began with p.1706. After issue #72, the magazine was re-organized into volumes starting with Volume 7, with each running for 12 issues. This meant that issue #240 (the last one) was labeled as Volume 20, issue 12. Also, the first 72 issues are sometimes retrospectively divided into volumes (for example issue #13 may be called Volume 2, issue 1).
This duel indexing scheme can be seen when doing searches. Matches from the first 72 issues are given in terms of a page number, while matches afterwards are given as Volume/issue-number/page-number triplets.
Search all of the indicies, using a regular expression pattern, printing the matching lines. A "-f" option includes the file name and line number of each match. A "-c" makes upper/lowercase significant in the regex; by default, case is ignored.
Some examples to try:
python search.py "aero" # upper or lower case python search.py "Aero" -c # case matters python search.py "Charles I+" python search.py "Charles I+" -f python search.py "(Thai)|(Siam)" python search.py "Stamps" python search.py "Stamps" | grep "Germa"
Some output:
> python search.py "(Thai)|(Siam)" Thailand, 1126 Thailand, 1126-1128 Thailand, 1294 Thailand, 1294-95 Siamese fighting fish, 11/12/16-17 Barge, Thai, 13/12/16 Siamese cat, 15/9/20 Matches: 7
A match that returns a page number, as in the first four hits in the "Thai|Siam" example above, aren't very helpful for finding the actual magazine. That's solved by pageToIssue.py which maps a supplied page number to the cover issue number (and also to a Volume/issue-number).
> python pageToIssue.py Page number? 1126 Cover issue no: 47 Vol/issue: 4/11 > python pageToIssue.py Page number? 1294 Cover issue no: 54 Vol/issue: 5/6