Democritus functions^[1] for working with and using regexes.

[1] Democritus functions are simple, effective, modular, well-tested, and well-documented Python functions.

We use d8s (pronounced "dee-eights") as an abbreviation for democritus (you can read more about this here).

pip install d8s-regexes

You import the library like:

from d8s_regexes import *

Once imported, you can use any of the functions listed below.

• def is_regex(possible_regex: str) -> bool:
      """Determine whether or not the possible_regex is a valid regex."""

• def regex_closest_match(regex: str, string: str) -> str:
      """Find the longest version of regex that matches something in string."""

• def regex_simplify(regex: str, *, consolidation_threshold: int = 5) -> str:
      """Clean and simplify a regex to a more efficient form."""

• def regex_create(inputs: List[str], *, simplify_regex: bool = True, consolidation_threshold: int = 5) -> str:
      """Create a regex that matches all of the inputs."""

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