I did find this solution, but he is trying to sanitize the name, I just want to know if it's valid or not. And a regex solution doesn't fit my needs cause is a fragile solution and specifications may change and/or escape some edgy cases.
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A maintainable solution for me is build a class and check it with AST. If the language move forward, the package should move forward as well.
import ast
def is_valid_class_name(name):
class_definition = f'class {name}: pass'
try:
ast.parse(class_definition)
except Exception as e:
return False
return True
That's it.
The same trick could be applied to variable name, assignment, whatever you want to check if is valid in python. Using a template ( which in this case is class NAMEOFCLASS: pass')
