On Fri, 15 May 2009, Barry Warsaw wrote: > > 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.
I'd even be OK with regex, as long as it was clear up front that this iwhat we were dealing with. Simply a note in the box? > > -Barry > -- Yours, J.A. Terranson sysadmin_at_mfn.org 0xpgp_key_mgmt_is_broken-dont_bother "Never belong to any party, always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to the public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing news, always be drastically independent, never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty." Joseph Pulitzer 1907 Speech ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
