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pandas.api.types.is_re(obj)[source]#

Check if the object is a regex pattern instance.

Parameters:

objThe object to check

Returns:

bool

Whether obj is a regex pattern.

Examples

from pandas.api.types import is_re import re is_re(re.compile(".*")) True is_re("foo") False