Dropping flegling regexp validation

How would you validate it anyway?  It's already a string...

diff --git a/chem_web.py b/chem_web.py
index 9dc68f0d73e2c9c4e05676e1c9d80c6ed969fad7..5494e6e44748dbcdaf493d6baa1a14cb49861c7e 100755 (executable)
--- a/chem_web.py
+++ b/chem_web.py
@@ -189,11 +189,9 @@ class docs (object) :
             db._refresh()
             formdata = web.input()
             user_regexp = formdata['regexp']
-            regexp = re.compile(self.validate_string(user_regexp), 'I') # Case insensitive
+            regexp = re.compile(user_regexp, 'I') # Case insensitive
             path = dgen.door_warning(lambda r: regexp.match(r['Location']))
             print file(path, 'rb').read() ,
-      def validate_string(self, string): # work in progress
-            return string
 
 class login (object) :
       "Print an alphabetized index of all existing pages"