django-regex-field

Stores regular expressions in Django models.

A Brief Overview

The Django regex field app provides a custom field for a Django model that stores a regex. This provides the ability to easily store regexs and access them as compiled regular expressions from your models.

Storing and Retrieving a Regex

A regular expression can be stored and retrieved in a Django model as follows:

from django.db import models
from regex_field import RegexField


class RegexModel(models.Model):
    regex = RegexField(max_length=128)


model_obj = RegexModel.objects.create(regex='a')

# Access the regex as a compiled regular expression
>>> print(model_obj.regex.match('b'))
None