On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:06:35 +0000, 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?
Define "phrase".
if len(s) > 0:
print "at least one character"
if len(s.split()) > 0:
print "at least one word"
if len(s.split('\n') > 0:
print "at least one line"
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