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rwavalidator
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A fast minimal package to validate Rwandan National Ids and Phone Numbers(all carriers) using Regular Expressions.
A fast minimal package to validate Rwandan National Ids and Phone Numbers(all carriers) using Regular Expressions.
The distribution is hosted on pypi at: https://pypi.org/project/rwavalidator/. To directly install the package from pypi, run from your terminal::
$ pip install rwavalidator
Usage
from rwavalidator import (isPhoneNumber, isNationalId)
isPhoneNumber("0788854444"); # true
isPhoneNumber("0778854444"); # false
isNationalId("1199672222000040"); # true
isNationalId("1201772222000040"); # false
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A fast minimal package to validate Rwandan National Ids and Phone Numbers(all carriers) using Regular Expressions.
We found that rwavalidator 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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