pycerberus documentation

pycerberus is a library to check user data thoroughly so that you can protect your application from malicious (or just garbled) input data.

  • Remove stupid code which converts input values: After values are validated, you can work with real Python types instead of strings - e.g. 42 instead of ‘42’, convert database IDs to model objects transparently.
  • Implement custom validation rules: Writing custom validators is straightforward, everything is well documented and pycerberus only uses very little Python magic.
  • Focus on your value-adding application code: Save time by implementing every input validation rule only once, but 100% right instead of implementing a dozen different half-baked solutions.
  • Ready for global business: i18n support (based on GNU gettext) is built in, adding custom translations is easy.
  • Tune it for your needs: You can implement custom behavior in your validators, e.g. fetch translations from a database instead of using gettext or define custom translations for built-in validators.
  • Use it wherever you like: pycerberus is used in a SMTP server, trac macros as well as web applications - there are no dependencies on a specific context like web development.

Getting Help

There is a mailing list where you ask for help or discuss new features

License

pycerberus is licensed under the MIT license. As there are no other dependencies (besides Python itself), you can easily use pycerberus in proprietary as well as GPL applications.