[Tutor] wiki madness grows one you like a brain fungus

[Kirk Bailey]

Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kirk Bailey" <idiot1 at netzero.net>
> Cc: <tutor at python.org>
> Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 6:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] wiki madness grows one you like a brain fungus
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>>Now you get layout ok, and it is still converting words into links or into 
>>wikiwords. USUALLY they are right. It is throwing some noise in the process I 
>>cannot understand. This puzzles me.
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>>here are the links.
>>sourcecode:
>>http://www.tinylist.org/wikinehesa.txt
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>>ANYONE, please take a look and tell me when to shoot this thing.
>>And where. WHERE is of particular intrest, SOMETHING here DESPERATELY needs a 
>>bullet.
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> Here's a compact, faster version of iswikiword():
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>     import re
>     wikiword = re.compile('[A-Z][^A-Z]+[A-Z]').search
>     def iswikiword(word, wikiword = re.compile('[A-Z][^A-Z]+[A-Z]').search):
>         return wikiword(word) is not None
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Know why I wrote it that way?

Cause I don' comprehend re worth a damn is why. Thanks for the words of power. I 
will try it.
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> For Py2.3, the "in" keyword works just like your isin() function:
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Hoa about 1.5.2? OLd server, alas. Due for upgrade REAL SOON NOW...

>     if 'http://' in word: 
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> In wordsplit(), there is a bug -- you meant to return (newword, extras)
> instead of (word, extras).  Also, building the strings through
> character appends is very slow -- use str.join instead.  
> Also, the search runs faster if "punctuation" is kept in a dictionary.
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oops... wil fix soonest.

> Overall, the code is fairly compact and nice.
My blushes sir, thank you! :-)
> Considering using docstrings instead of prolific comments on every line.
> The code will look *much* more beautiful.
Hmmmm...

At least I comment generously. You want to look at the inspiration, piki?
Wonder guy, but Martin don' comment worth a tinker's scream in hell. That sort 
of programming is, um, mysterious. Rather, that sort of MINDSET is a mystery.

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>>Cheers!
>>         Kirk D Bailey
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