On Jun 10, 10:32 pm, bullockbefriending bard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > quite so, i rephrased docstring to be: > > """criteria is an iterable containing either '*' instances or strings > of comma-separated integers. e.g. ['*','1,2,3', '11,12']""" > > thanks very much for the idea! upon further reflection, this seems to > be a more elegant solution for my case than the ad-hoc generator or > list comprehension approach. this is because i *do* have to filter > data based on multiple single field criteria and i know all of these > criteria at the same time - so it makes a lot of sense to do as you > have done and then only do one filter operation to pull out all the > objects i am interested in.
"""i want to search on *one only* tuple field/value.""" """i will only ever specify an integer match for one tuple field.""" """the cheque's in the mail""" """of course i'll still love you in the morning""" So augment my pre-built approach by intersection (or union? your wording is somewhat vague) of the selected answer sets. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
