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Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 18:29:14 -0500
From: Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com>
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Subject: Re: SQL code generation from table-free boolean queries?
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On 2013-06-26 16:17, Foo Stack wrote:
> Given string input such as:
>     foo=5 AND a=6 AND date=now OR date='2013/6' AND bar='hello'
> 
> I am going to implement:
> 
> - boolean understanding (which operator takes precendence)
> - spliting off of attributes into my function which computes their
> table in the SQL database
> - piece everything together into an SQL query
> 
> However, it came to me that this is probably a very generic thing;
> and there might be a library for it.

It sounds like you might want to use pyparsing and start with
something akin to this[1]

-tkc

[1]
http://pyparsing.wikispaces.com/file/view/simpleSQL.py