allowRegexes is not working properly

[severindellsperger]

Hi @asweigart, Hi @ALL,

I recently found a bug (or at least a documentation gap) in this module.
For test purposes, I wrote an input validation where the user has to type in a password with a specific pattern (allowed symbols and minimal/maximal length). If I only use the allowRegex parameter it isn't working properly:
code:

password = pyip.inputStr(prompt='Type in your password: ', allowRegexes=[r"[A-Za-z0-9-_]{6,18}"], blockRegexes=[r"."])

log:

Type in your password: $hort

It's only working, if the blockRegex is set too:
code:

password = pyip.inputStr(prompt='Type in your password: ', allowRegexes=[r"[A-Za-z0-9-_]{6,18}"], blockRegexes=[r"."])

log:

Type in your password: $short
This response is invalid.

Maybe the code has to be updated or the documentation has to be changed.

Thanks.

Kind Severin

[brtduvally]

Thank you, @severindellsperger! I was having this issues too, and I would never have figured it out if you hadn't posting this issue.

+1 for fixing or at least the doc update.