@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ PyMethodMatch's Purpose In Life PyMethodMatch is a library for parsing very high level (and ideally very Human Language like) commands. There's two ways to look at PyMethodMatch: + 1. From the end user's perspective: your app takes very simple phrases that will run things 2. From the programmer's perspective: you set up regex keys and values. If the phrase coming in matches one of the regex, that function will be executed. @@ -32,4 +33,19 @@ In Cucumber these phrases are matched to blocks of code, and these code blocks e PyMatcher API ============================================== +First, create a new Matcher object: + +`from PyMethodMatch.method_matcher import Matcher +matcher = Matcher()` + +Define a function to be called and match it up with a regular expression with a register() call + +`def call_me(matchObj): + print "hello world" +matcher.register("I am the regular expression to match to this function", call_me)` + +When you are ready to (potentially) call one of your functions, call + +`matcher.execute("I am the regular expression to match to this function")` +The result of the function will be returned to you. README.markdown e36a0fefe16359fa2c9e9090a75de391d3ff0cc9 Ryan Wilcox aias@sting-2.crossroadsint.org http://github.com/rwilcox/pymethodmatch/commit/2262833441bb04e2dffea5521cf20a2a13dfc00f 2262833441bb04e2dffea5521cf20a2a13dfc00f 2009-03-18T07:33:51-07:00 2009-03-18T07:33:51-07:00 fixed formatting in README d1ddb459eff7d33a87dbb775b624523d7d161554 Ryan Wilcox aias@sting-2.crossroadsint.org