i have a large collection of python objects, each of which contains an
integer 6-tuple as part of its data payload. what i need to be able to
do is select only those objects which meet a simple tuple element
wildcard matching criterion. e.g. given the following python objects:
object A includes tuple (1,2,3,4,5,6)
object B includes tuple (1,4,4,4,11,1)
object C includes tuple (1,3,9,1,1,1)
all tuples are unique. for what it's worth, the values in each field
are independent of the other fields and range from 1 to 14. although
'large', my collection is sparse cf. the 14^6 possible tuples.
i want to search on *one only* tuple field/value. if my search
criterion is (*,*,*,4,*,*), then i want to find object A and object B.
if (1,*,*,*,*,*), i want to find objects A, B, and C, etc. i will only
ever specify an integer match for one tuple field.
i can think of some naive approaches, but is there an elegant way to
do this?
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