[Zope] Odd ZCTextIndex behavior

[Jim Kutter]

I'm forcing it to a str() as soon as I pull it off the request object. I
think there may be something else going on in the Catalog object. 

It appears that any query that starts with a '*' gets the leading
wildcard dropped. We have tons of articles on 'WebSphere', searching for
'*sphere' finds entries with 'sphere' alone, 'w*sphere' properly find
'WebSphere'. 

I think I'll peruse the ZCatalog source and see if that gives me any
hints.

However, do any Zope guys have a good explanation for why that happens?
Would patching that be a bad thing?

-jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Lee J. McAllister [mailto:ljmcallister at hotmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 1:26 PM
To: dwilson at abrazohealth.com; Jim Kutter; zope at zope.org
Subject: RE: [Zope] Odd ZCTextIndex behavior


What's the likelyhood that Python is playing silly buggers with type's?
To 
python a bare '451' will generally look like, and be converted to, an 
Integer instead of a string.  If that's not caught and forcibly
converted 
properly it could cause something like what you're describing.

Lee


>
>sounds like it's not a problem then. Try searching for *451. If that
>works, then you only need 1 wildcard.
>
>
>Thanks,
>Derek Wilson
>
>	-----Original Message-----
>	From: Jim Kutter [mailto:jim at ebizq.net]
>	Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 9:28 AM
>	To: zope at zope.org
>	Subject: [Zope] Odd ZCTextIndex behavior
>
>
>	Hi folks -
>
>	I've noticed some odd behavior in the ZCTextIndex. I have an
>index of searchable terms that include, among other things, the
author's
>employer's name. In instances where the company name is a string
>followed by a number (in this instance, "the451 group"), searching for
>the number ("451") even with wildcards ("*451*"), only finds references
>where the number is alone, and not part of any other string. Oddly,
>searching for "t*451" matches the name.
>
>	I'm running the binary 2.6.2 (and 2.6.1) releases on linux. This
>occurrs in both.
>
>	Any ideas why this would happen? Is this correctable?
>
>	-jim
>
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