Hi. I've been sort of standing back on the sidelines reading this list for awhile, and this is my first posting. So a little about myself and my skill level. My name is Bryan. I'm new to Python and have very little experience. I've gone through a few of the tutorials. I understand the different data-types, basic syntax, functions and function definition, basic iteration, and calling from modules.
I might be getting ahead of myself, but I think the best way for me to learn things is by having a goal and working towards it. My goal is to create a personal command line journaling application. I would like to store all the entries in one file, have them searchable by keywords, date, topic, etc... I think I would like to use "/*" type commands. For instance, you call the application from a terminal window and start with a generic prompt. You would type '/ne /t "topic"' to begin a new entry and assign the topic; '/d' to set a date. You should be able to use the slash commands while editing as well. For instance while writing in an entry you could isolate a phrase or word with /k "phrase to be marked as searchable keyword" / to mark the enclosed text as a searchable keyword/keyphrase. So what I'm interested in is how this would work. Is this 'event driven' in nature? Would I define the bulk of these slash commands in a function and then call it at the end of the script? What would be a good module to look at for the text processing and searching aspects? Anyways, I'm not sure how you would create a program that would "listen" for commands and then parse them accordingly. I think for starters I will sketch out on paper the slash commands I need, and try to break apart the general operations into pseudo code. How would you all approach this? Thank you all and I hope I'm not biting off too much at once... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
