wildling

Python library and CLI for pattern-based string generation. Zero third-party dependencies (stdlib only). Requires Python 3.9+.

Docs: Website · Sandbox · Syntax · Source

Registry: PyPI

Example

http://${'dev,stage,prod'}\-${'api,web'}#{0-2}.example.${'com,net,org'}/@.html

(The \- is a literal hyphen; bare - would mean “one letter or digit”. @ is one lowercase letter.)

That builds URL-shaped candidates: scheme http://, then environment × service × optional digits × TLD, then a one-letter path page. Three environments, two services, zero–two digits ('', 0–9, 00–99), three TLDs, and a–z → 51948 strings — the kind of list you generate for fuzzing links or probing staging hosts, not type out.

A few of them:

http://dev-api.example.com/a.html / http://stage-web.example.com/z.html
http://dev-api0.example.net/a.html / http://prod-web9.example.org/m.html
http://dev-api00.example.com/a.html / http://prod-web99.example.org/z.html

Named dictionaries (%{'hosts'}) work the same way when the word lists live in files.

Try it in the sandbox, or see pattern syntax for length ranges, dictionaries, and escapes.

Install

From this repository:

cd python
./build.sh
# or without Docker:
cp ../docs/help.txt wildling/help.txt

The CLI is ./bin/wildling.

Registry: pip install wildling

Git:

pip install "git+https://github.com/dotmonk/wildling.git@v2.0.7#subdirectory=python"

Library

from wildling import create_wildling

wildling = create_wildling(
    patterns=["abrakadabra", "Year 19##"],
    dictionaries={"colors": ["red", "blue"]},
)

wildling.count()  # 101
wildling.get(0)   # "abrakadabra"

value = wildling.next()
while value is not False:
    print(value)
    value = wildling.next()

wildling.reset()

API

Method	Description
`next()`	Next combination, or `False` when exhausted
`get(index)`	Combination at `index`, or `False` if out of range
`count()`	Total combinations across all patterns
`index()`	Current position (after `next` calls)
`reset()`	Reset iteration to the start
`generators()`	Per-pattern generators

CLI

./bin/wildling "Year 19##"
./bin/wildling --dictionary planets:../dictionaries/planets.txt "%{'planets'}"
./bin/wildling --template ./config.json

Help text and --check output follow docs/cli.md / docs/help.txt.

Build

./build.sh   # Docker: copy help.txt + byte-compile

Project tests live in ../tests/ and are run with ../test.sh.

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