Internals

Documentation for the internals of CodeSearch. The content on this page is not a part of the public API and isn't intended for most users. It's all subject to change in non-breaking versions.

CodeSearch.gen_wildcard — Function

gen_wildcard(str, prefix="wildcard")

return a string starting with prefix that is not in str

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CodeSearch.prepare_wildcards — Function

prepare_wildcards(str) -> (new_str, wildcard_str)

Replace * with an identifier that does not occur in str (preferrably "wildcard") and return the new string and the identifier. * may be escaped, and the new identifier is padded with spaces only when necessary to prevent it from parsing together with characters before or after it.

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