Matching Strings

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Fri, 09 Feb 2007 21:03:32 -0300, <rshepard at nospam.appl-ecosys.com>  
escribió:

>   I'm not sure how to change a string so that it matches another one.
>
>   My application (using wxPython and SQLite3 via pysqlite2) needs to  
> compare
> a string selected from the database into a list of tuples with another
> string selected in a display widget.
>
>   An extract of the relevant code is:
>
>     selName = self.polTree.GetItemText(selID)
>     ...
>     for item in self.appData.polNat:
>       print 'Item: ', item, '\n', 'selName: ', selName, '\n'
>       if item == selName:
>         print '***** ', self.appData.polNat[1]
>
>   The last comparison and print statement never work because the strings  
> are
> presented this way:
>
> 	Item:  (u'ground water',)
> 	selName:  ground water

Forget about re and slicing and blind guessing...
item appears to be a tuple; in these cases repr is your friend. See what  
happens with:
print repr(item), type(item)

If it is in fact a tuple, you should ask *why* is it a tuple (maybe could  
have many items?). And if it's just an artifact and actually it always  
will be a single:

assert len(item)==1
item = item[0]
if item...

-- 
Gabriel Genellina