pandas.api.types.is_re

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

Check if the object is a regex pattern instance.

Parameters:	`obj : The object to check`
Returns:	`is_regex : bool` Whether `obj` is a regex pattern.

>>> is_re(re.compile(".*"))
True
>>> is_re("foo")
False

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