suggestions for VIN parsing

[Rick Johnson]

On Monday, December 29, 2014 12:50:39 AM UTC-6, Rick Johnson wrote:

[EDIT]

> 3. Now you can write some fairly simple logic.
> 
>     prog = re.compile("pat1|pat2|pat3...")
>     def parse_vin(vin):
>         match = prog.search(vin)
>         if match:
>             gname = # Fetch the groupname from the match object.
>             number = # Fetch the digits from the group capture.
>             d = database[gname]
>             for k in d:
>                 low, high = d[k]

Dammit! That last line should have been:

    low, high = k

But even better would be:

    d = database[gname]
    for low,high in d:
        if low <= number <= high:
            ...

I knew something was tickling my sub-conscience as i sent
that reply, i should have known better!

PS: Hey, I said it was "fairly simple" logic, not "perfect" 
logic!