django-regex 0.5.0

RegexField

Django fields to store regular expressions

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

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.

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

rules = RegexList(['\d*'])
1 in rules  # True
'1' in rules  # True
'a' in rules  # False

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