Luke,
You are confusing me for the OP. Please read carefully next time before you
respond to the wrong person.
I bumped because the OP's question was not specific and I thought I talked
about people making their requests or questions very specific if they expect
any useful replies.
So, Luke take note; the message was not from me!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Luke Paireepinart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Evans Anyokwu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <tutor@python.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2006 10:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Tutor] doubt in Regular expressions
> Post Script: Sorry for the double e-mail, Evans. I forgot to forward it
> to the list the first time.
> Also, why don't replies automatically forward themselves to the list like
> the pygame mailing list does?
> For privacy reasons, in case you want to reply to someone separately?
> End of P.S.
> ---------------------
>
> Evans Anyokwu wrote:
>> bump
> Please don't send useless messages like this to the list. If you don't
> get a reply you want in a few days, send the message again.
> You waited 30 minutes and bumped the post. This is a huge turn-off for me
> and makes me not even want to consider your problem.
> However, I'll assume that you're used to asking questions on high-traffic
> message boards where this type of thing is necessary.
>
> [snip header]
>>
>> hello all,
>> i want to search strings in the database available and return
>> the link of the string instead simply returning the words... by
>> using regular expressions(RE) i got a way to perform the string
>> matches....give some info regarding how to return the link of the
>> matched strings...
>> ravi.
>>
> Again, you need to be more specific. We have no idea what your data
> structure looks like so we have no idea how to help you.
> This is the way I would do it.
>
> class SearchObj(object):
> def __init__(self):
> self.database = {}
> def addElement(astr,alink):
> self.database[astr] = alink
> def searchElement(astr):
> bstr = "blah blah" #insert code to match the element they're trying
> to search for with the closest one in the database.
> try: return self.database[bstr]
> except: pass
>
> This sounds like what you're trying to do, but I don't think it's a very
> good way to make a search engine.
> no matter how your string-matching is, a single keyword shouldn't be
> mapped to a single site link. That doesn't make sense!
> so if someone searches for "Puppy" they'll only get a single link back?
> What's the point of that?
> I want to search through the sites not have you search through them for
> me, find out which you think I want, and only give me the link to that
> one.
> If I did I would use Google's I'm Feeling Lucky.
> For that matter, I would use Google for any search.
> Why are you wanting to make this search engine?
> If it's for practice, I feel that it's not a very good project to practice
> on, because the design issues are so much larger than the programming
> itself.
> For practicing programming you should probably use some simple example
> that requires a lot of code. Like Tetris or Pong.
> If you're doing this for commercial use, you should just look into adding
> a Google SiteSearch to your page.
> python.org did this and it works fantastically.
> If you insist on continuing in this, I wish you luck and I hope everything
> turns out how you want it.
> Are you going to send us a link to it when you're done?
> -Luke
>
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