pcplantdb

[Chad Knepp <pyg@galatea.org>]

Richard Morris writes:
 > <snip>
 > For example Almond (Prunus dulcis) has:
 > 
 > Known Hazards: Although no specific mention has been seen for this 
 > species, it belongs to a genus where most, if not all members of the 
 > genus produce hydrogen cyanide, a poison that gives almonds their 
 > characteristic flavour. This toxin is found mainly in the leaves and
 > 
 > (BUG This sentance seems to end early!)

Bug in the dataset, I checked.  It got truncated somewhere.  It's fine
in the PFAF dataset on Ibiblio...

 > All other members of the Genus have the same Hazard warning.
 > 
 > I could waffle on about other relationships at family/order/division
 > level but I'll spare you that.
 > 
 > We did cover this a while back. I think conclusion was KISS and keep 
 > things as they were, just having a page per species. But it is an 
 > interesting point to note.
 > 
 > A couple of minor formating bugs, there could be more space between 
 > Family and Species name in the listing of matching plants. 
 > http://permaculture.info/cgi-bin/eden?search=almond&button=Search+PIW
 > Also the underlining was one space out
 >      Rosaceae Prunus dulcis  Almond
 >      -------- --------------
 > rather than
 >      Rosaceae Prunus dulcis Almond
 >      -------- -------------

Good eyes... there are a number of these, probably because of trailing
whitespace in the dataset.  I can either spider through the data and
strip out whitespace or strip it out in the data engine.  Better in
the long run to strip it out of the dataset.

-- 
Chad Knepp
python -c 'import base64;print base64.decodestring("cHlnQGdhbGF0ZWEub3Jn")'