sre is broken in SuSE 9.2

[Fredrik Lundh]

Serge Orlov wrote:

>> >>> re.compile(ur'\w+', re.U).findall(u'\xb5\xba\xe4\u0430')
>> [u'\xb5\xba\xe4\u0430']
>
> I can't find the strict definition of isalpha, but I believe average
> C program shouldn't care about the current locale alphabet, so isalpha
> is a union of all supported characters in all alphabets

nope.  isalpha() depends on the locale, as does all other ctype functions
(this also applies to wctype, on some platforms).

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