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Yet another validation lib ;). Provides tools for general-purpose variable validation, function inputs/outputs validation as well as class fields validation. All entry points raise consistent ValidationError including all contextual details, with dynamic inheritance of ValueError/TypeError as appropriate.
"valid8ing is not a crime" ;-)
valid8
provides user-friendly tools for 3 kind of "entry points":
All these entry points raise consistent ValidationError
including user-friendly details, with inheritance of ValueError
/ TypeError
as appropriate. You can customize this error so as to get unique error types convenient for i18n.
The documentation for users is available here: https://smarie.github.io/python-valid8/
A readme for developers is available here: https://github.com/smarie/python-valid8
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Yet another validation lib ;). Provides tools for general-purpose variable validation, function inputs/outputs validation as well as class fields validation. All entry points raise consistent ValidationError including all contextual details, with dynamic inheritance of ValueError/TypeError as appropriate.
We found that valid8 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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