Hi, I have Django model and in one of the fields I need to store a regex string that I can later use.
class Foo(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=30, unique=True) regex_string = models.TextField() So for example, the regex_string field might be set to: r'\d{2}' I then try to retrieve this later, compile it as a regex expression and use it - however, it doesn't seem to work as planned: >>> pattern = re.compile(ham.regex_string) >>> print(pattern.match("22")) None Obviously if I pass the raw string literal in directly, it works fine: >>> pattern = re.compile(r'\d{2}') >>> pattern.match("22") <_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x1505100> If I actually print ham.regex_string, it returns: u"r'\\d{2}'" So it's a unicode string, but for some reason the backslashes are doubled-up? What I actually need is a way to store a regex raw string literal, so that I can retrieve it later and use it in a regex. Is there a better way of doing this? Cheers, Victor -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-users/-/k7i1EJD2fVwJ. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.