Make findNearestUsers() code in soc/logic/site/id_user.py more generic and move it to soc/logic/model.py. Orginal findNearest...() functions in id_user.py are now convenience wrappers. Add typed-query string construction functions to model.py. Move getFulLClassName() from key_name.py model.py, since it has more to do with Model types than key names. Swap 'offset' and 'limit' and make 'limit' arguments non-optional. Also, stop adding 1 inside the ...ForLimitAndOffset() functions and make the callers do it (since it was being added for a very UI-specific reason of whether or not to display a "Next>" link). Patch by: Todd Larsen Review by: Pawel Solyga Review URL: http://codereviews.googleopensourceprograms.com/1401

# Performance note: I benchmarked this code using a set instead of
# a list for the stopwords and was surprised to find that the list
# performed /better/ than the set - maybe because it's only a small
# list.

stopwords = '''
i
a
an
are
as
at
be
by
for
from
how
in
is
it
of
on
or
that
the
this
to
was
what
when
where
'''.split()

def strip_stopwords(sentence):
    "Removes stopwords - also normalizes whitespace"
    words = sentence.split()
    sentence = []
    for word in words:
        if word.lower() not in stopwords:
            sentence.append(word)
    return u' '.join(sentence)