At 10:38 AM 2/16/2001 -0800, you wrote:

Do you mean rude words or words you shouldn't use (like REQUEST)? ;)

Good point! How about both? BenO

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----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Ocean" <zope@thewebsons.com> To: <zope@zope.org> Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 10:28 AM Subject: [Zope] Dirty Word Filter

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Hi; Has anyone developed a Zope dirty word filter? TIA, BenO

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At 08:44 PM 2/16/2001 +0100, you wrote:

[Ben Ocean]

| Has anyone developed a Zope dirty word filter?

How do you define filter? And how would you use it? F ex when displaying content? Or when adding content?

I'm thinking of when someone adds to a job or classifieds board or some other means of posting, such as SquishDot. BenO

For ZCatalog searches there is a stop-word list, I don't know too much about it, but for searches, that could be used I guess (albeit, it is a very ugly solution).

Maybe (untested!):

aString = 'you <dirty word1> bastard!' DirtyWords = [<dirty word1>, <dirty word2>]

for word in string.split(aString, ' '): if word in DirtyWords: aString = string.replace(aString, word, '*bleep*')

I guess that would work. If you combine that, with soundex and ZCatalog you could get a nice filter.

Create it as a python module in the Extensions/ directory and let everything you want to check have a run through that script first.