[Tutor] doubt in Regular expressions

[Evans Anyokwu]

Luke,

You are confusing me for the OP. Please read carefully next time before you 
respond to the wrong person.

I bumped because the OP's question was not specific and I thought I talked 
about people making their requests or questions very specific if they expect 
any useful replies.

So, Luke take note; the message was not from me!


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Luke Paireepinart" <rabidpoobear at gmail.com>
To: "Evans Anyokwu" <fiveholiday55 at hotmail.com>; <tutor at python.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2006 10:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Tutor] doubt in Regular expressions


> Post Script:  Sorry for the double e-mail, Evans.  I forgot to forward it 
> to the list the first time.
> Also, why don't replies automatically forward themselves to the list like 
> the pygame mailing list does?
> For privacy reasons, in case you want to reply to someone separately?
> End of P.S.
> ---------------------
>
> Evans Anyokwu wrote:
>> bump
> Please don't send useless messages like this to the list.  If you don't 
> get a reply you want in a few days, send the message again.
> You waited 30 minutes and bumped the post.  This is a huge turn-off for me 
> and makes me not even want to consider your problem.
> However, I'll assume that you're used to asking questions on high-traffic 
> message boards where this type of thing is necessary.
>
> [snip header]
>>
>>     hello all,
>>       i want to search strings in the database available and return
>>     the link of the string instead  simply returning the words...  by
>>     using regular expressions(RE) i got a way to perform the  string
>>     matches....give some info regarding how to return the link of the
>>     matched strings...
>>      ravi.
>>
> Again, you need to be more specific.  We have no idea what your data 
> structure looks like so we have no idea how to help you.
> This is the way I would do it.
>
> class SearchObj(object):
>   def __init__(self):
>      self.database = {}
>   def addElement(astr,alink):
>      self.database[astr] = alink
>   def searchElement(astr):
>      bstr = "blah blah" #insert code to match the element they're trying 
> to search for with the closest one in the database.
>      try:  return self.database[bstr]
>      except:  pass
>
> This sounds like what you're trying to do, but I don't think it's a very 
> good way to make a search engine.
> no matter how your string-matching is, a single keyword shouldn't be 
> mapped to a single site link.  That doesn't make sense!
> so if someone searches for "Puppy" they'll only get a single link back?
> What's the point of that?
> I want to search through the sites not have you search through them for 
> me, find out which you think I want, and only give me the link to that 
> one.
> If I did I would use Google's I'm Feeling Lucky.
> For that matter, I would use Google for any search.
> Why are you wanting to make this search engine?
> If it's for practice, I feel that it's not a very good project to practice 
> on, because the design issues are so much larger than the programming 
> itself.
> For practicing programming you should probably use some simple example 
> that requires a lot of code.  Like Tetris or Pong.
> If you're doing this for commercial use, you should just look into adding 
> a Google SiteSearch to your page.
> python.org did this and it works fantastically.
> If you insist on continuing in this, I wish you luck and I hope everything 
> turns out how you want it.
> Are you going to send us a link to it when you're done?
> -Luke
>