Re: [SQLObject] Form fields and SQLObject

[Ian B. <ia...@co...>]

mar...@ge... wrote:
> What I would like is to implement a findPerson method that, based on
> the field values incl. any operators - *, <, >, <=, >= and so on, is
> able to perform a proper search and return all matching Person
> objects(rows). I have fiddled around with some inelegant string
> substitution to ugly to post. Especially properties - in this case
> middleInitial - that defaults to None, are troublesome, since an
> empty field is not matched by None.
> 
> Is there a elegant preferably generic solution for the above ? by
> generic I mean somthing that would work irrespective of the specific
> class.

You might want to look back through the mailing lists for a thread
"Looking for selection hints" started by Frank Barknecht around 10/2003.
He was doing some similar stuff.

> I am using Python 2.3 on Windows 2000 and SQLObject 0.5.1.
> 
> Ian Bicking - super cool tool.

Thanks ;)

Cheers,
   Ian