xotl.tools.validators.identifiers
– Simple identifiers validators¶
Regular expressions and validation functions for several identifiers.
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xotl.tools.validators.identifiers.
is_valid_identifier
(name)[source]¶ Returns True if name a valid Python identifier.
If name is not a string, return False. This is roughly:
isinstance(name, str) and name.isidentifier()
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xotl.tools.validators.identifiers.
is_valid_full_identifier
(name)[source]¶ Returns True if name is a valid dotted Python identifier.
See
is_valid_identifier()
for what “validity” means.
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xotl.tools.validators.identifiers.
is_valid_public_identifier
(name)[source]¶ Returns True if name is a valid Python identifier that is deemed public.
Convention says that any name starting with a “_” is not public.
See
is_valid_identifier()
for what “validity” means.