"""Basic regular expression demostration facility (Perl style syntax). This displays a window with two type-in boxes. In the top box, you enter a Perl style regular expression. In the bottom box, you enter a string. The first match in the string of the regular expression is highlighted with a yellow background (or red if the match is empty -- then the character at the match is highlighted). The highlighting is continuously updated. At the bottom are a number of checkboxes which control the regular expression options used (see the re module for descriptions). When there's no match, or when the regular expression is syntactically incorrect, an error message is displayed. """ from Tkinter import * import re class ReDemo: def __init__(self, master): self.master = master self.promptdisplay = Label(self.master, anchor=W, text="Enter a Perl-style regular expression:") self.promptdisplay.pack(side=TOP, fill=X) self.regexdisplay = Entry(self.master) self.regexdisplay.pack(fill=X) self.regexdisplay.focus_set() self.addoptions() self.statusdisplay = Label(self.master, text="", anchor=W) self.statusdisplay.pack(side=TOP, fill=X) self.labeldisplay = Label(self.master, anchor=W, text="Enter a string to search:") self.labeldisplay.pack(fill=X) self.labeldisplay.pack(fill=X) self.showframe = Frame(master) self.showframe.pack(fill=X, anchor=W) self.showvar = StringVar(master) self.showvar.set("first") self.showfirstradio = Radiobutton(self.showframe, text="Highlight first match", variable=self.showvar, value="first", command=self.recompile) self.showfirstradio.pack(side=LEFT) self.showallradio = Radiobutton(self.showframe, text="Highlight all matches", variable=self.showvar, value="all", command=self.recompile) self.showallradio.pack(side=LEFT) self.stringdisplay = Text(self.master, width=60, height=4) self.stringdisplay.pack(fill=BOTH, expand=1) self.stringdisplay.tag_configure("hit", background="yellow") self.grouplabel = Label(self.master, text="Groups:", anchor=W) self.grouplabel.pack(fill=X) self.grouplist = Listbox(self.master) self.grouplist.pack(expand=1, fill=BOTH) self.regexdisplay.bind('', self.recompile) self.stringdisplay.bind('', self.reevaluate) self.compiled = None self.recompile() btags = self.regexdisplay.bindtags() self.regexdisplay.bindtags(btags[1:] + btags[:1]) btags = self.stringdisplay.bindtags() self.stringdisplay.bindtags(btags[1:] + btags[:1]) def addoptions(self): self.frames = [] self.boxes = [] self.vars = [] for name in ('IGNORECASE', 'LOCALE', 'MULTILINE', 'DOTALL', 'VERBOSE'): if len(self.boxes) % 3 == 0: frame = Frame(self.master) frame.pack(fill=X) self.frames.append(frame) val = getattr(re, name) var = IntVar() box = Checkbutton(frame, variable=var, text=name, offvalue=0, onvalue=val, command=self.recompile) box.pack(side=LEFT) self.boxes.append(box) self.vars.append(var) def getflags(self): flags = 0 for var in self.vars: flags = flags | var.get() flags = flags return flags def recompile(self, event=None): try: self.compiled = re.compile(self.regexdisplay.get(), self.getflags()) bg = self.promptdisplay['background'] self.statusdisplay.config(text="", background=bg) except re.error, msg: self.compiled = None self.statusdisplay.config( text="re.error: %s" % str(msg), background="red") self.reevaluate() def reevaluate(self, event=None): try: self.stringdisplay.tag_remove("hit", "1.0", END) except TclError: pass try: self.stringdisplay.tag_remove("hit0", "1.0", END) except TclError: pass self.grouplist.delete(0, END) if not self.compiled: return self.stringdisplay.tag_configure("hit", background="yellow") self.stringdisplay.tag_configure("hit0", background="orange") text = self.stringdisplay.get("1.0", END) last = 0 nmatches = 0 while last <= len(text): m = self.compiled.search(text, last) if m is None: break first, last = m.span() if last == first: last = first+1 tag = "hit0" else: tag = "hit" pfirst = "1.0 + %d chars" % first plast = "1.0 + %d chars" % last self.stringdisplay.tag_add(tag, pfirst, plast) if nmatches == 0: self.stringdisplay.yview_pickplace(pfirst) groups = list(m.groups()) groups.insert(0, m.group()) for i in range(len(groups)): g = "%2d: %s" % (i, `groups[i]`) self.grouplist.insert(END, g) nmatches = nmatches + 1 if self.showvar.get() == "first": break if nmatches == 0: self.statusdisplay.config(text="(no match)", background="yellow") else: self.statusdisplay.config(text="") # Main function, run when invoked as a stand-alone Python program. def main(): root = Tk() demo = ReDemo(root) root.protocol('WM_DELETE_WINDOW', root.quit) root.mainloop() if __name__ == '__main__': main()