"Jason S. Friedman" <ja...@powerpull.net> wrote in message news:mailman.2927.1247192026.8015.python-l...@python.org... > 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?
Well, you *could* try analyzing the comment text using NLTK: http://www.nltk.org/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list