On May 15, 2009, at 2:48 PM, Carl Zwanzig wrote:
I've run into this with countless applications- the programmer uses a regexp since it's so powerful, but the user expects to enter "zba*" and get everything starting with "zba". Ditto on not finding something you can see in a listing. Remember that while many list admins are either programmers or system managers, many are just users, and wouldn't know a regexp if it bit them.IMHO, some options (in order of my desirability)... radio buttons to select regexp or glob behavior (default to glob?) text around the box that says "it's a regexp" make the search use a glob
I tend to agree that "normal" users think of globs instead of regexps. Unfortunately, there's no good non-filesystem glob module in Python that I know of. Ideally, there'd be a module that translates globs to regexps. That might not be too hard.
-Barry
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