In article <82372457-2503-4682-96b3-37540328b...@w39g2000prb.googlegroups.com>, <5lvqbw...@sneakemail.com> wrote: > >I have Section 4.4.1 of SICP rattling around in my head (database >queries), and I'm trying to come up with a simple dictionary-based >database in Python to represent circuit diagrams. My main confusion >isn't one of implementation, but a matter of "big thinking", >fundamentally, about the problem. Please don't suggest using a SQL >library, as I'm looking to learn to fish, so to speak, and to learn a >bit about the biology of fish.
Having read the rest of your conversation with Jonathan, I'm going to suggest a related book that I think may help you approach this from a different angle: _Mastering Regular Expressions_ by Jeffrey Friedl. (I haven't gone through SICP myself, so I can't be sure that it's relevant, but it covers the topic of transforming search criteria into executable statements -- and it will almost certainly be useful to you even if it's not relevant to your current problem.) -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." --Brian W. Kernighan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
