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regex search in admin forms

Despite warning coming from django developers, I'm still using admin classes to quickly get into reverse engineering databases. One feature is missing: searching into fields thanks to a regex. One dirty solution I found is to overwrite get_search_results. But most of the code comes from django itself. If anyone has a better idea ;) **Usage:** 1. works since get_search_results is part of ModelAdmin (1.5 if I remember well) 2. Inherit your Admin class from RegexModelAdmin 3. enclose by / the field you want to regex with: `search_fields = ['/field/', ]`