Regular expressions and non-standard character set

[Oleg Broytmann]

On 27 Mar 2001, Petri Mikael Kuittinen wrote:
> I tried to find information about setting locale. The Linux man pages
> nor the standard Python were not helpful on this matter.

   Just look into docs for python module locale.

> > >>> import re
> > >>> re.findall(r"\b...\b", "spam, egg, bacon, and ЕДЖ")
> > ['egg', 'and']
> > >>> re.findall(r"(?L)\b...\b", "spam, egg, bacon, and ЕДЖ")
> > ['egg', 'and', 'ЕДЖ']
>
> I tried the above. It didn't work under Python 2.0 under Windows 2000,

   This is known bug. Will be fixed in Python 2.1 and, I hope, in Python
2.0.1.

Oleg.
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