send me a patch
On Oct 29, 11:31 am, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Oct 29, 2009, at 9:23 AM, mdipierro wrote:
>
>
>
> > You can already do that by piping cleanup which would remove unmached
> > charatacters or using IS_MATCH() validator.
>
> CLEANUP obviates the need for any change at all (and it doesn't really
> do what I'm suggesting). MATCH might. But the point of the change
> you're suggesting is the same as the one I'm suggesting: IS_EMPTY
> should match non-empty strings that "count as empty". It's syntactic
> sugar merely, but sweet nonetheless.
>
>
>
> > On Oct 29, 11:18 am, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote:
> >> On Oct 29, 2009, at 9:01 AM, mdipierro wrote:
>
> >>> I do not disagree. Shall we make is_not_empty strip?
>
> >> If it's going to change, how about (also) an optional argument,
> >> defaulting to None, that's a string that counts as empty? I'm
> >> thinking
> >> of the case in which you put instructions to the user in a field,
> >> like
> >> "first name" in the first_name field. In that case, it'd be
> >> convenient
> >> of "first name" counted as EMPTY.
>
> >>> On Oct 29, 10:43 am, Thadeus Burgess <thade...@thadeusb.com> wrote:
> >>>> Ok, I guess I just figured that IS_NOT_EMPTY would check for if the
> >>>> string
> >>>> was blank as well.
>
> >>>> Thanks for clarifying
>
> >>>> -Thadeus
>
> >>>> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:40 AM, mdipierro
> >>>> <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
> >>>>> tually is CLEANUP() or CLENAUP(regex='.') that does that.
> >>>>> I do not think we agreed to anything el
>
>
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