A few years ago for my thesis, I was interested in the implementation of engines to filter information - using Lisp language.

One of the sources of inspiration was work of Christian Queinnec and in particular its book “filtering: an application of (and for) lisp” unfortunately available only in French.

I have just ordered again this book (lost in my many relocations) and I should receive it soon.

Indeed, I intend to take one week of vacation to code! and I envisaged to produce a generic engine to filter information - engine written in Python.

Soon or later, this engine will be used in the iTrade project to extract financial information from websites ; but I intend also to comment on and to develop this library to improve the effectiveness of Python when it is a question of extracting and managing information.

I wish to show that the power of expression of a filter makes it possible to appreciably reduce the size of the code necessary to extract information and that it is possible in Python.

Not to waste time for the logistic of this new project, I will park this work under a sub folder of the iTrade project. I would give more information later on when the coding session starts.

NB: for the name of the project, I imagine something around “Paragon”.