[Zope] ZCTextIndex - prefix wildcards not supported?

[Andreas Jung]

TextIndexNG2 supports this feature.

-aj

--On Donnerstag, 20. November 2003 12:38 Uhr -0500 Small Business Services 
<toolkit at magma.ca> wrote:

> Why are wildcards '?' and '*' not supported at the beginning of search
> terms in ZCTextIndex?  It would be very useful to search for terms using
> '*someterm'.
>
> In the cvs for ZCTextIndex, Lexicon.py
> (http://cvs.zope.org/Products/ZCTextIndex/Lexicon.py?annotate=1.17.10.2)
>
> the code raises an exception for wildcards at the beginning of search
> terms (see line 113) and a related comment says"
>
> 111                                  # The pattern starts with a globbing
> character. 112                                  # This is too efficient,
> so we raise an exception.
>
> Why is this 'too efficient"?
>
>
> Jonathan
>