On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:02:54 pm Ron Adam wrote:
One of the needs I've run across is to enable the program user (possibly a non-programmer) to do logical searches on data.
It would be nice if the search patterns specified by the program user could be used directly by the functions. Search functions of this type would take patterns that are more like what you would use for google or yahoo searches instead of the more complex language re requires.
I'm not sure if I understand this correctly. Perhaps you could give an example or two? Also, please don't overload my simple little proposal with a multitude of new functionality. My proposal is only meant to be a lightweight convenience function. Additional functionality probably belongs as a different function, maybe even a different module. -- Steven D'Aprano