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A wrapper for Python's re library for advanced regex pattern management

Project description

A wrapper for Python’s re library for advanced regex pattern management

Installation

pip install replus

or clone this repo

git@github.com:raptored01/replus.git

and then run

python setup.py install

Basic usage

The Engine loads Regular Expression pattern templates written in *.json files from the provided directory, builds and compiles them in the following fashion:

example of template models/dates.json:

{
  "day": [
    "3[01]",
    "[12][0-9]",
    "0?[1-9]"
  ],
  "month": [
    "0?[1-9]",
    "1[012]"
  ],
  "year": [
    "\\d{4}"
  ],
  "date": [
    "{{day}}/{{month}}/{{year}}",
    "{{year}}-{{month}}-{{day}}"
  ],
  "patterns": [
    "{{date}}"
  ]
}

will result in the following regex:

(?P<date_0>(?P<day_0>[12][0-9]|0?[1-9]|3[01])/(?P<month_0>0?[1-9]|1[012])/(?P<year_0>\d{4})|(?P<year_1>\d{4})-(?P<month_1>0?[1-9]|1[012])-(?P<day_1>[12][0-9]|0?[1-9]|3[01]))

It is possible to query as follows:

from replus import Engine

engine = Engine('models')

for match in engine.parse("Look at this date: 2012-20-10"):
    print(match)
    # <[Match date] span(19, 29): 2012-12-10>

    date = match.group('date')
    print(date)
    # <[Group date_0] span(19, 29): 2012-12-10>

    day = date.group('day')
    print(day)
    # <[Group day_1] span(27, 29): 10>

    month = date.group('month')
    print(month)
    # <[Group month_1] span(24, 26): 12>

    year = date.group('year')
    print(year)
    # [Group year_1] span(19, 23): 2012>

Match objects have the following attributes:

  • type: the type of match (e.g. “dates”);

  • match: the re.match object;

  • re: the regex pattern;

  • all_group_names: the name of all the children groups;

Both Match and Group objects have the following attributes:

  • value: the string value of the match/group

  • start: the beginning of the match/group relative to the input string

  • end: the end of the group relative to the input string

  • offset (start, end)

  • length (end-start)

Group objects have the following attributes:

  • name: the actual group name (e.g. date_1);

  • key: the group key (e.g. date);

Both Match and Group objects can be serialized in dicts with the serialize() method and to a json string with the json attribute

Secondary features

There are two useful secondary features:

  • non-capturing groups: these are specified by using the “!” prefix in the group name

  • dynamic backreferences: use # to reference a previous group and @<n> to specify how many groups behind

template:

{
  "!number": [
    "\\d"
  ],
  "abg": [
    "alpha",
    "beta",
    "gamma"
  ],
  "patterns": [
    "This is an unnamed number group: {{number}}.",
    "I can match {{abg}} and {{abg}}, and then re-match the last {{#abg}} or the second last {{#abg@2}}"
  ]
}

It will generate the following regexs:

This is an unnamed number group: (?:\d).

I can match (?P<abg_0>alpha|beta|gamma) and (?P<abg_1>alpha|beta|gamma), and then re-match the last (?P=abg_1) or the second last (?P=abg_0)

N.B.: in order to obtain an escape char, such as \d, in the pattern’s model it must be double escaped: \\d

Current limitations

None known

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