Package generic_fns :: Module relax_re
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Module relax_re

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Module implementing relax regular expression.

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bool
search(pattern, id)
Determine if id matches the pattern, or vice versa, allowing for regular expressions.
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  __package__ = 'generic_fns'

Imports: re, replace


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search(pattern, id)

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Determine if id matches the pattern, or vice versa, allowing for regular expressions.

This method converts from relax's RE syntax to that of the re python module.

The changes include:

  1. All '*' to '.*'.
  2. The identifier is bracketed, '^' is added to the start and '$' to the end.

After conversion of both the string and patterns, the comparison is then performed both ways from the converted string matching the original string (using re.search()).

Parameters:
  • pattern (anything) - The pattern to match the string to. This can be a list of patterns. All elements will be converted to strings, so the pattern or list can consist of anything.
  • id (None, str, or number) - The identification object.
Returns: bool
True if there is a match, False otherwise.