Greetings, I'm setting up a search for an online catalog. It works right now by passing the cgi search query to the command-line swish-e via os.popen. I'll do it via a direct interface as soon as I figure out how to do that with swig or the swishe module. In the meantime, I'm trying to sanitize the query so it's safer on the shell. The swish-e documentation says it's better to include only the characters that you want rather than knock out the known offenders. It seems like there should be a simple way with string methods or the re module. Right now I've got:
def getquery(): kosher = re.compile(r'\w|"|\'|[ ]') sanitized = ''.join(kosher.findall(form['query'].value)) Is this about the best way to do this? gabe _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor