Storing regex raw string literal in Django model?

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

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