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24 alternatives to Valid8r, Functional validation for Python CLIs using Maybe monads

I built Valid8r because I got tired of writing the same input validation code for every CLI tool. You know the pattern: parse a string, check if it's valid, print an error if not, ask again. Repeat for every argument. The library uses Maybe monads (Success/Failure instead of exceptions) so you can chain parsers and validators: # Try it: pip install valid8r from valid8r.core import parsers, validators # Parse and validate in one pipeline result = ( parsers.parse_int(user_input) .bind(validators.minimum(1)) .bind(validators.maximum(65535)) ) match result: case Success(port): print(f"Using…

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    A very fast library for validating UTF-8 using AVX2/SSE4 instructions - zwegner/faster-utf8-validator

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    A simple, fast, extensible python library for data validation. New features: * union validator * dynamic dict validator * timedelta validator * enum validator * slug validator * fqdn validator * nested model class GitHub: https://github.com/guyskk/validr Document: https://github.com/guyskk/validr/wiki Usage: https://github.com/guyskk/validr/wiki/Scenario-&-Example

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    A CLI tool to build beautiful rich text command-line interfaces with type validation. - Andarius/piou

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    a Pythonic toolkit for working with Boolean expressions - welchbj/tt

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    Cross-platform CLI tool to validate configuration files across 18 formats. Syntax and schema validation with JSON Schema, XSD, and SchemaStore integration. Written in Go. - Boeing/config-file-validator

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