[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:1148133784.844430.23130@ 38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:
> Gerard Flanagan wrote: >> All >> >> would anyone happen to have code to generate Cutter Numbers: >> >> eg. http://www1.kfupm.edu.sa/library/cod-web/Cutter-numbers.htm >> [...] > > I wrote a script to see if I could capture what the table is doing on > the page you linked to. It gets the Cutter number right about 50% of > the time, otherwise its off by a few digits. > > I am stumped about what to do when the first letter is Q not followed > by U. It says to use numbers 2-29 for the second letters a-t, but that > is obviously not right (for one thing t would be 21, not 29). > > Since you seem a little bit more experienced in library science could > you explain what is going on? :) > > you can find the script here: > http://lost-theory.org/python/cutter.txt > I found another page <http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/cts/codes/cutter.html> that expresses the letter codes more fully than the one the OP posted. But nothing I've seen so far accounts for an example like " Chertok (.C48)". This page <http://www.itsmarc.com/crs/cutr0020.htm> shows essentially the same information the OP posted, including the Chertok example, which is linked to another page that says this (and only this): "These Cutters reflect the adjustments made to allow for a range of letters on the table, e.g., l-m, or for letters not explicitly stated, e.g., h after an initial consonant." Given that some unnamed adjustment is made, it's not clear how one would go about programming it. I mean, Python's good, but it only has a serpent brain. -- rzed -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
