In admin, wrapped in a layer of "re.compile('...')" on every save

[mverleg]

I have made the regex field available in the Django admin panel, but every time I save it, it wraps the field in re.compile('...').

path = RegexField(max_length=128, blank=False, null=False)

I end up with something like:

re.compile('re.compile("re.compile(\'/post/\\\\\\\\d/\')")')

It could be that I'm using this incorrectly somehow, but I'm not sure what's wrong.

[edwelker]

+1

[edwelker]

Work-around:

from django.forms.fields import CharField
from regex_field.fields import RegexField as BrokenRegexField

class FixedRegexField(CharField):
    def prepare_value(self, value):
        try:
            return value.pattern
        except AttributeError:
            return value

class RegexField(BrokenRegexField):
    def formfield(self, **kwargs):
        defaults = {'form_class': FixedRegexField}
        defaults.update(kwargs)
        return super().formfield(**defaults)