Steven D'Aprano wrote:
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"
You could also verify there are at least N different characters used in
the sentence:
N = 5 # must contains at least 5 different characters
record = []
for c in s:
if c not in record:
record += [c]
if len(record) >= N:
print "at least %s different characters" % N
Jean-Michel
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