From 7d048cb39980799506b7396e3cb1cfb18af703c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: LtWorf <LtWorf@014f5005-505e-4b48-8d0a-63407b615a7c>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:38:42 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] added selection

git-svn-id: http://galileo.dmi.unict.it/svn/relational/trunk@6 014f5005-505e-4b48-8d0a-63407b615a7c
---
 relation.py        | 19 ++++++++++++++++++-
 samples/people.tlb |  9 +++++++++
 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 samples/people.tlb

diff --git a/relation.py b/relation.py
index e67b8e7..a856283 100644
--- a/relation.py
+++ b/relation.py
@@ -54,7 +54,24 @@ class relation (object):
 		fp=file(filename,'w')
 		fp.write(res)
 		fp.close()
-	
+	def selection(self,expr):
+		'''Selection, expr must be a valid boolean expression, can contain field names,
+		constant, math operations and boolean ones.'''
+		fields={}
+		newt=relation()
+		newt.header=header(list(self.header.fields))
+		for i in self.content:
+			for j in range(len(self.header.fields)):
+				if i[j].isdigit():
+					fields[self.header.fields[j]]=int(i[j])
+				else:
+					fields[self.header.fields[j]]=i[j]
+				
+			
+			
+			if eval(expr,fields):
+				newt.content.append(i)
+		return newt
 	def product (self,other):
 		'''Cartesian product, fields must be different to avoid collisions
 		Doing this operation on relations with colliding fields will 
diff --git a/samples/people.tlb b/samples/people.tlb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e8dd32a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/samples/people.tlb
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+id name chief age
+0 jack 0 22
+1 carl 0 20
+2 john 1 30
+3 dean 1 33
+4 eve 0 25
+5 duncan 4 30
+6 paul 4 30
+7 alia 1 28
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