[XML-SIG] Re: Issues with Unicode type

[Eric van der Vlist]

On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 23:16, Uche Ogbuji wrote:

> >   yep, that simple,
>=20
> Oh, but then Python is so much simpler:
>=20
>    =20
> SP_PAT =3D re.compile(u"[\uD800-\uDBFF][\uDC00-\uDFFF]")
> def smart_len(u):
>     sp_count =3D len(SP_PAT.findall(u))
>     return len(u) - sp_count
>=20
>=20
> Problem solved.

Unfortunately only half solved (apart from the fact that it won't work
on Python interpreters compiled for 32 bits but this would be easy to
test) since this won't fix regular expressions that easily!

> The great thing about Python is even when it frustrates you one moment, i=
t=20
> finds a way to quickly make up for it.

I reckon that this is a smart smart_len :-)

Eric

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