Re: Finding Peoples' Names in Files

2007-10-11 Thread Chris Mellon
On 10/11/07, brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Mellon wrote: > > > In case you're doing this for PCI validation, be aware that just the > > CC number is considered sensitive and you'd get some false negatives > > if you filter on anything except that. > > > > Random strings that match CC chec

Re: Finding Peoples' Names in Files

2007-10-11 Thread brad
Chris Mellon wrote: > In case you're doing this for PCI validation, be aware that just the > CC number is considered sensitive and you'd get some false negatives > if you filter on anything except that. > > Random strings that match CC checksums are really quite rare and false > positives from th

Re: Finding Peoples' Names in Files

2007-10-11 Thread Chris Mellon
On 10/11/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 11, 12:49 pm, Matimus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Oct 11, 9:11 am, brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > However...how can you know it is a name... > > > > > OK, I admitted in my fi

Re: Finding Peoples' Names in Files

2007-10-11 Thread John J. Lee
brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Crazy question, but has anyone attempted this or seen Python code that > does? For example, if a text file contained 'Guido' and or 'Robert' > and or 'Susan', then we should return True, otherwise return False. A few ideas: 1. If you don't have a list of names,

Re: Finding Peoples' Names in Files

2007-10-11 Thread Matimus
On Oct 11, 10:02 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Oct 11, 12:49 pm, Matimus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Oct 11, 9:11 am, brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > However...how can you know it is a name... > > > > OK, I admitted in my first post that it w

Re: Finding Peoples' Names in Files

2007-10-11 Thread byte8bits
On Oct 11, 12:49 pm, Matimus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 11, 9:11 am, brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > However...how can you know it is a name... > > > OK, I admitted in my first post that it was a crazy question, but if one > > could find an answer,

Re: Finding Peoples' Names in Files

2007-10-11 Thread Dan Stromberg
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:22:50 -0400, brad wrote: > Crazy question, but has anyone attempted this or seen Python code that > does? For example, if a text file contained 'Guido' and or 'Robert' and > or 'Susan', then we should return True, otherwise return False. It'll be hard to handle the Dweezi

Re: Finding Peoples' Names in Files

2007-10-11 Thread Matimus
On Oct 11, 9:11 am, brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > However...how can you know it is a name... > > OK, I admitted in my first post that it was a crazy question, but if one > could find an answer, one would be onto something. Maybe it's not a 100% > answerable question

Re: Finding Peoples' Names in Files

2007-10-11 Thread brad
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > However...how can you know it is a name... OK, I admitted in my first post that it was a crazy question, but if one could find an answer, one would be onto something. Maybe it's not a 100% answerable question, but I would guess that it is an 80% answerable question..

Re: Finding Peoples' Names in Files

2007-10-11 Thread Francesco Guerrieri
On 10/11/07, brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Oct 11, 5:22 pm, brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Crazy question, but has anyone attempted this or seen Python code that > >> does? For example, if a text file contained 'Guido' and or 'Robert' and > >> or 'Susan', t

Re: Finding Peoples' Names in Files

2007-10-11 Thread cokofreedom
On Oct 11, 5:40 pm, brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Oct 11, 5:22 pm, brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Crazy question, but has anyone attempted this or seen Python code that > >> does? For example, if a text file contained 'Guido' and or 'Robert' and > >> or 'Su

Re: Finding Peoples' Names in Files

2007-10-11 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
brad wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On Oct 11, 5:22 pm, brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Crazy question, but has anyone attempted this or seen Python code that >>> does? For example, if a text file contained 'Guido' and or 'Robert' and >>> or 'Susan', then we should return True, otherwise

Re: Finding Peoples' Names in Files

2007-10-11 Thread brad
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Oct 11, 5:22 pm, brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Crazy question, but has anyone attempted this or seen Python code that >> does? For example, if a text file contained 'Guido' and or 'Robert' and >> or 'Susan', then we should return True, otherwise return False. > >

Re: Finding Peoples' Names in Files

2007-10-11 Thread Tim Williams
On 11/10/2007, brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Crazy question, but has anyone attempted this or seen Python code that > does? For example, if a text file contained 'Guido' and or 'Robert' and > or 'Susan', then we should return True, otherwise return False. > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/l

Re: Finding Peoples' Names in Files

2007-10-11 Thread cokofreedom
On Oct 11, 5:22 pm, brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Crazy question, but has anyone attempted this or seen Python code that > does? For example, if a text file contained 'Guido' and or 'Robert' and > or 'Susan', then we should return True, otherwise return False. Can't you just use the string fun