New submission from py.user <port139@yandex.ru>: http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/re.html "(?P<name>...) Similar to regular parentheses, but the substring matched by the group is accessible within the rest of the regular expression via the symbolic group name name. Group names must be valid Python identifiers, and each group name must be defined only once within a regular expression."

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chr(255) 'ÿ' 'ÿ'.isidentifier() True import re re.search(r'(?P<ÿ>a)', 'abc') Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/functools.py", line 176, in wrapper result = cache[key] KeyError: (<class 'str'>, '(?P<ÿ>a)', 0)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/re.py", line 158, in search return _compile(pattern, flags).search(string) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/re.py", line 255, in _compile return _compile_typed(type(pattern), pattern, flags) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/functools.py", line 180, in wrapper result = user_function(*args, **kwds) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/re.py", line 267, in _compile_typed return sre_compile.compile(pattern, flags) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/sre_compile.py", line 491, in compile p = sre_parse.parse(p, flags) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/sre_parse.py", line 692, in parse p = _parse_sub(source, pattern, 0) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/sre_parse.py", line 315, in _parse_sub itemsappend(_parse(source, state)) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/sre_parse.py", line 552, in _parse raise error("bad character in group name") sre_constants.error: bad character in group name

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also: (?P=name) (?(name)yes|no) \g<name> ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation, Regular Expressions messages: 157266 nosy: docs@python, ezio.melotti, mrabarnett, py.user priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: In re's named group the name cannot contain unicode characters type: behavior versions: Python 3.2 _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14462> _______________________________________