On Oct 29, 2009, at 9:57 AM, mdipierro wrote: > > send me a patch
OK. Do you want to strip spaces? White space generally? If so, should IS_NULL_OR do the same? > > On Oct 29, 11:31 am, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote: >> On Oct 29, 2009, at 9:23 AM, mdipierro wrote: >> >> >> >>> You can already do that by piping cleanup which would remove >>> unmached >>> charatacters or using IS_MATCH() validator. >> >> CLEANUP obviates the need for any change at all (and it doesn't >> really >> do what I'm suggesting). MATCH might. But the point of the change >> you're suggesting is the same as the one I'm suggesting: IS_EMPTY >> should match non-empty strings that "count as empty". It's syntactic >> sugar merely, but sweet nonetheless. >> >> >> >>> On Oct 29, 11:18 am, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote: >>>> On Oct 29, 2009, at 9:01 AM, mdipierro wrote: >> >>>>> I do not disagree. Shall we make is_not_empty strip? >> >>>> If it's going to change, how about (also) an optional argument, >>>> defaulting to None, that's a string that counts as empty? I'm >>>> thinking >>>> of the case in which you put instructions to the user in a field, >>>> like >>>> "first name" in the first_name field. In that case, it'd be >>>> convenient >>>> of "first name" counted as EMPTY. >> >>>>> On Oct 29, 10:43 am, Thadeus Burgess <thade...@thadeusb.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> Ok, I guess I just figured that IS_NOT_EMPTY would check for if >>>>>> the >>>>>> string >>>>>> was blank as well. >> >>>>>> Thanks for clarifying >> >>>>>> -Thadeus >> >>>>>> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:40 AM, mdipierro >>>>>> <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: >>>>>>> tually is CLEANUP() or CLENAUP(regex='.') that does that. >>>>>>> I do not think we agreed to anything el --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
