triegex 0.0.3

Trie-ized regular expressions in python

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triegex
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About
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**triegex** is a library that builds a compact trie-structured regular expressions from a list of words.

Installation
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.. code-block:: bash

pip install triegex

Example usage
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.. code-block:: python

>>> import triegex
>>>
>>> t = triegex.Triegex('foo', 'bar', 'baz')
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>>> t.to_regex() # build regular expression
'(?:ba(?:r\\b|z\\b)|foo\\b|~^(?#match nothing))'
>>>
>>> t.add('spam')
>>>
>>> 'spam' in t # you check if the word is in there
True
>>>
>>> import re
>>> re.findall(t.to_regex(), 'spam & eggs') # ['spam']
['spam']

Why?
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The library was inspired by a need to match a list of valid IANA top-level domain names (`which is pretty big <http://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt>`_).

Also it's fun

**triegex** was influenced by these projects: `frak <https://github.com/noprompt/frak>`_, `regex-trie <https://github.com/alexeld/regex-trie>`_ and `Regexp-Trie <http://search.cpan.org/~dankogai/Regexp-Trie-0.02/lib/Regexp/Trie.pm>`_