[Python-ideas] Proposed convenience functions for re module

[Jan Kaliszewski]

Ron Adam <rrr at ronadam.com>"

> 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.

It's a proposition of another string matching module ("browsermatch"? :-))

+0.6

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