pyWhat VS regex

Compare pyWhat vs regex and see what are their differences.

pyWhat

🐸 Identify anything. pyWhat easily lets you identify emails, IP addresses, and more. Feed it a .pcap file or some text and it'll tell you what it is! 🧙‍♀️ (by bee-san)

regex

An implementation of regular expressions for Rust. This implementation uses finite automata and guarantees linear time matching on all inputs. (by rust-lang)
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pyWhat regex
16 91
6,292 3,308
- 1.5%
0.0 9.1
5 months ago 2 days ago
Python Rust
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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pyWhat

Posts with mentions or reviews of pyWhat. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-20.

regex

Posts with mentions or reviews of regex. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-24.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pyWhat and regex you can also consider the following projects:

re2 - modern regular expression syntax everywhere with a painless upgrade path [Moved to: https://github.com/SonOfLilit/kleenexp]

node-re2 - node.js bindings for RE2: fast, safe alternative to backtracking regular expression engines.

zig - General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.

arkime - Arkime is an open source, large scale, full packet capturing, indexing, and database system.

ngrams - (Read-only) Generate n-grams

regex-benchmark - It's just a simple regex benchmark of different programming languages.

whatlang-rs - Natural language detection library for Rust. Try demo online: https://whatlang.org/

Fluent - Rust implementation of Project Fluent

rust - Rust for the xtensa architecture. Built in targets for the ESP32 and ESP8266

UNIC - UNIC: Unicode and Internationalization Crates for Rust

BruteShark - Network Analysis Tool

ripgrep - ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore