Dear villas,
Thanks for the reply.
Here is my understanding of what you want. You'd like to be able to search
using a search syntax based on the shlex module.
My technique uses the SQLFORM.grid's Standard Search Input
("#w2p_keywords") syntax for it's searches.
I suggest you post an Enhancment suggestion for the SQLFORM.grid's Standard
Search Input as a main discussion topic in this forum.
Thanks again, villas.
Love and peace,
Joe
On Saturday, July 12, 2014 10:39:31 AM UTC-7, villas wrote:
>
> I would also like to add an optional 'extra' because it is nice to be able
> to search like this:
>
> search_text = '"David Cameron" uk'
>
> By quoting search 'phrases' as well as words, you can get a better
> result. After all, I would not want every David in the UK to be listed.
>
> I have found that using 'shlex' is a good solution. For example:
>
> import shlex
> words = [x for x in shlex.split(search_text)] if search_text else []
>
> I hope this might also be useful to someone wishing to improve their
> search options.
>
> D
>
>
>
>
> On Friday, 11 July 2014 00:20:39 UTC+1, peter wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for this Joe, and it is an interesting approach. However I find
>> the approach I used
>>
>>
>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/web2py/sqlform.grid$20search/web2py/9_1ECdKHKUo/8OISg7o8OVIJ
>>
>> Somewhat easier to understand. Your approach is more novel however.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>
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