Re: [docs] error in regular expression howto.

On 21.06.2012 14:41, Jonas Frey wrote:

Hi,

i think i found a little error in the regular expression howto (http://docs.python.org/py3k/howto/regex.html).

Concerning \w, the howto states:

\w Matches any alphanumeric character; this is equivalent to the class [a-zA-Z0-9_].

However, \w is *not* equivalent to [a-zA-Z0-9_]. For example, the latter does not accept letterw with accents àéîü, whereas the former does.

Hi Jonas,

this is explained in the paragraph before the list of classes:

""" The equivalent classes are for bytes patterns. For a complete list of sequences and expanded class definitions for Unicode string patterns, see the last part of Regular Expression Syntax. """

cheers, Georg