RegexTester 0.3

Python online regex tester for Python 2.7+

Python online regex tester for Python 2.7+

This is a full featured web based Python regexp tester wih:

• all main re methods: re.search, re.match, re.findall, re.sub, re.subn

• all main regex flags (re.U, re.I, re.X, etc)

• ajax powered live matching as you type the pattern

• match coloration

Try the demo.

Setup

• git clone git://github.com/ksamuel/Python-regex-tester.git regex_tester

• cd regex_tester; python regexp_tester.py

Voila. This should open a browser with the regex tester web page.

Dependancies

None

It uses:

• the Bottle Python micro framework

• the Blueprint CSS framework

• the jQuery javascript framework

But all of them are already provided, the whole thing being less than 500 ko.

There is even a stand alone one file version in the static folder.

Since the project was initially only for us to use, it’s taking advantages of a few advanced CSS selectors and some HTML 5 goodies. Make sure you have an up to date browser.

What it lacks

• some love: design is not the strong point of the product. And a spiner for ajax requests would help.

• some configuration options: it dont haz it

• some use: I have no time to find bugs or write tests, so please use and report. I only use it in Firefox and Chrome on Ubuntu 11.10 when programming.

• some protection: you can make it crash if you enter huge chunks of text or a pattern with agressive lookaheads

I do accept pull requests :-)

If it ever prove stable and usefull, I may package it. But the program is so easy to start that it may be overkill.

Licence

GPL2.

Honestly, only because that’s the first FOSS licence I could find a text copy of when googling.