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?
Don't be a fool. Have someone other than the author read the comment. Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list