I hate these kind of changes because they affect syntax highlighing and a lot of example pages. Do you feel strongly about this?
On Oct 29, 12:25 pm, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Oct 29, 2009, at 10:14 AM, Jonathan Lundell wrote: > > > > > On Oct 29, 2009, at 9:57 AM, mdipierro wrote: > > >> send me a patch > > > OK. > > > Do you want to strip spaces? White space generally? If so, should > > IS_NULL_OR do the same? > > I see that stripping is there already. > > Another question: why isn't IS_NULL_OR called IS_EMPTY_OR? Is there a > distinction intended between null and empty (in this context)? > > If they're the same, how about changing IS_NULL_OR to IS_EMPTY_OR, for > consistency, and preserving IS_NULL_OR as a deprecated alias for > IS_EMPTY_OR? > > > > >> 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 > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
