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Fields and utilities to work with regular expression in Django
The Django regex field provides custom fields and utilities for a Django model that stores a regex. This provides the ability to easily store regex patterns and access them as compiled regular expressions from your models.
Patterns can be expressed in perl syntax to set regex flags.
RegexField
Django fields to store regular expressions
.. code-block:: python
class DemoModel(models.Model):
regex = RegexField(flags=re.I)
o = DemoModel.objects.create(regex='^1$')
o.regex.match('1')
RegexFlagsField
As RegexField but allows to set compilation flags (see: https://docs.python.org/2/howto/regex.html#compilation-flags) It is rendered with proper widget
.. code-block:: python
from django_regex.validators import compress
import re
class DemoModel(models.Model):
regex = RegexFlagsField()
o = DemoModel.objects.create(regex=compress(['aa', re.I]))
o.regex.match('AA')
o = DemoModel.objects.create(regex=compress(['aa', 'i'])) # use human shortcuts
o.regex.match('AA')
RegexFlagsField stores pattern and flags in the same db column as string in the format
<regex.pattern><separator><regex.flags>
separator is chr(0) can be customized using settings DJANGO_REGEX_SEPARATOR
or per each field using flags_separator argument.
.. code-block:: python
from django_regex.validators import compress
import re
class DemoModel(models.Model):
regex = RegexFlagsField(flags_separator='/')
o = DemoModel.objects.create(regex='aa/i')
o.regex.match('AA')
RegexList
list that matches content against valid regular expressions
.. code-block:: python
rules = RegexList(['\d*'])
1 in rules # True
'1' in rules # True
'a' in rules # False
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Fields and utilities to work with regular expression in Django
We found that django-regex demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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