python-dict-display-filter 0.9.4

A Wireshark-like display filter for dictionaries.

Python Dictionary Display Filter

Wireshark-like display filter for python dictionaries.

Setup

pip3 install python-dict-display-filter

Usage

The basics and the syntax of the display filter are described in the User Guide.

If you want to see some advanced examples of how python-dict-display-filter can be put to use checkout the Examples.

If you want to use python-dict-display-filter in your own application and customize it to your needs check out the Developer Guide.

Features

The following overview shows all the supported features of the display filter:

• Comparison Operators: ==, !=, <=, <, >=, >, ~=, ~, &
• Combining Operators: and, or, xor, not
• Membership Operators: in
• Types: Text, Number, Date & Time, Ethernet-, IPv4-, IPv6-Address
• Slicing: Text, Ethernet-, IPv4-, IPv6-Address
• Functions: upper, lower, len

For a detailed description of the individual features check out the User Guide.

Examples

Initialize DictDisplayFilter with a list of dictionaries:

> from pydictdisplayfilter import DictDisplayFilter
> actors = [
    {"name": ["Laurence", "Fishburne"], "age": {"born": "1961"}, "gender": "male"},
    {"name": ["Keanu", "Reeves"], "age": {"born": "1964"}, "gender": "male", "power": ["flight", "bulle-time"]},
    {"name": ["Joe", "Pantoliano"], "age": {"born": "1951"}, "gender": "male"},
    {"name": ["Carrie-Anne", "Moss"], "age": {"born": "1967"}, "gender": "female"}
]
> ddf = DictDisplayFilter(actors)

Show only actors with some kind of super-power:

> ddf.filter("power")

Show only actors which were born before 1965:

> ddf.filter("age.born < 1965")

Show only female actors:

> ddf.filter("gender == female")

Show all male actors which are born between 1960 and 1965:

> ddf.filter("gender == male and (age.born > 1960 and age.born < 1965)")

Show all actors which name contain the character 'e':

> ddf.filter("name contains e")

Show all actors which name matches a regular expression:

> ddf.filter("name matches .*e$")

Inspired by

• Wireshark Display Filter

Powered by

• parameterized: Parameterized testing with any Python test framework
• pyparsing: Creating PEG-parsers made easy
• ipranger: Parsing and matching IPv4-addresses
• python-dateutil: Parsing and comparing dates