# HG changeset patch
# User Paul Boddie <paul@boddie.org.uk>
# Date 1290207601 -3600
# Node ID 4614ef99dbe102f234f6c50ebf2cd05f1e7aed42
# Parent  1077b05c9b76fce32f5d8f6a474061c0898c9418
Added a string serialisation function.
Fixed a parameter/argument name.

diff -r 1077b05c9b76 -r 4614ef99dbe1 iixr/data.py
--- a/iixr/data.py	Sun Jan 10 20:47:41 2010 +0100
+++ b/iixr/data.py	Sat Nov 20 00:00:01 2010 +0100
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 """
 Variable-length integer functions.
 
-Copyright (C) 2009 Paul Boddie <paul@boddie.org.uk>
+Copyright (C) 2009, 2010 Paul Boddie <paul@boddie.org.uk>
 
 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
 the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
@@ -65,6 +65,13 @@
     else:
         bytes.append(number)
 
+def string_to_array(s, bytes):
+
+    "Write the given string 's' to 'bytes'."
+
+    vint_to_array(len(s), bytes)
+    bytes.fromstring(s.encode("utf-8"))
+
 for i in xrange(0, 65536):
     bytes = array('B')
     _vint_to_array(i, bytes)
diff -r 1077b05c9b76 -r 4614ef99dbe1 iixr/index.py
--- a/iixr/index.py	Sun Jan 10 20:47:41 2010 +0100
+++ b/iixr/index.py	Sat Nov 20 00:00:01 2010 +0100
@@ -193,8 +193,8 @@
     def find_positions(self, term):
         return self.dict_reader.find_positions(term)
 
-    def find_common_positions(self, term):
-        return self.dict_reader.find_common_positions(term)
+    def find_common_positions(self, terms):
+        return self.dict_reader.find_common_positions(terms)
 
     def get_frequency(self, term):
         return self.dict_reader.get_frequency(term)