Cerberus

Cerberus is a lightweight and extensible data validation library for Python.

>>> v = Validator({'name': {'type': 'string'}})
>>> v.validate({'name': 'john doe'})
True

Features

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, Python 3.4, Python 3.5, Python 3.6, PyPy and PyPy3.

Documentation

Complete documentation is available at http://docs.python-cerberus.org

Installation

Cerberus is on PyPI so all you need is:

$ pip install cerberus

Testing

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

Contributing

Please see the Contribution Guidelines.

Copyright

Cerberus is an open source project by Nicola Iarocci. See the original LICENSE for more informations.