On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:06:35 +0000, Jason S. Friedman wrote: > Hello, I administer the Informatica ETL tool at my company. Part of > that role involves creating and enforcing standards. I want the > Informatica developers to add comments to certain key objects and I want > to be able to verify (in an automated fashion) that they have done so. > > I cannot merely check for non-emptiness; that is trivial to circumvent. > On the other hand, I probably do not need to be able to catch > developers who are determined to not create comments. There are not too > many of them and perhaps they will find it is easier to write a (useful) > comment than to game the system. > > Any thoughts on how I might proceed? Stated plainly, how can I tell > when a string more-or-less forms at least one phrase?
Define "phrase". if len(s) > 0: print "at least one character" if len(s.split()) > 0: print "at least one word" if len(s.split('\n') > 0: print "at least one line" -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list