pandas.api.types.is_re_compilable

pandas.api.types.is_re_compilable(obj) [source]

Check if the object can be compiled into a regex pattern instance.

Parameters:	obj : The object to check
Returns:	is_regex_compilable : bool Whether obj can be compiled as a regex pattern.

Examples

>>> is_re_compilable(".*")
True
>>> is_re_compilable(1)
False