Regular Expression for words (with umlauts, without numbers)

[Peter Otten]

Jens Lechtenboerger wrote:

> I'm looking for a regular expression to recognize natural language
> words with umlauts but without numbers.  While \w with re.U does
> recognize words with umlauts, it also matches numbers, which I do
> not want.
> 
> Is there a better way than an exhaustive enumeration such as
> [-a-zàáâãäåæ...]?
> 
> I guess there should be a better way as \w appears to know about
> alphabetical characters...

How about [^\W\d] ?