Cerberus is an ISC Licensed validation tool for Python dictionaries.
>>> v = Validator({'name': {'type': 'string'}})
>>> v.validate({'name': 'john doe'})
True
Cerberus provides type checking and other base functionality out of the box and is designed to be non-blocking and easily extensible, allowing for custom validation. It has no dependancies and is thoroughly tested under Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.3 and Python 3.4.
Complete documentation is available at http://cerberus.readthedocs.org
Cerberus is on PyPI so all you need is:
$ pip install cerberus
Just run:
$ python setup.py test
Or you can use tox to run the tests under all supported Python versions. Make sure the required python versions are installed and run:
$ pip install tox # first time only
$ tox
Please see the Contribution Guidelines.
Cerberus is an open source project by Nicola Iarocci. See the original LICENSE for more informations.