ContinuumIO/blaze — pull request #607 by mrocklin (2014-09-08 17:25:43+00:00)
Title: [WIP] Like

Text matching via globstrings

### Example

```Python
In [1]: from blaze import *

In [2]: L = [[1, 'Alice', 100],
[2, 'Bob', -200],
[3, 'Charlie', 300],
[4, 'Dennis', 400],
[5, 'Edith', -500]]

In [3]: t = Table(L, columns=['id', 'name', 'amount'])

In [4]: t.like(name='Al*')
Out[4]:
id name amount
0 1 Alice 100

In [5]: t.like(name='*e*')
Out[5]:
id name amount
0 1 Alice 100
1 3 Charlie 300
2 4 Dennis 400

```