python3, regular expression and bytes text
Eko palypse
ekopalypse at gmail.com
Sat Oct 12 15:57:06 EDT 2019
> You cannot. First, \w in re.LOCALE works only when the text is encoded
> with the locale encoding (cp1252 in your case). Second, re.LOCALE
> supports only 8-bit charsets. So even if you set the utf-8 locale, it
> would not help.
>
> Regular expressions with re.LOCALE are slow. It may be more efficient to
> decode text and use Unicode regular expression.
Thank you, I guess I'm convinced to always decode everything (re pattern and text) to utf8 internally and then do the re search but then I would need to figure out the correct position, hmm - some ongoing investigation needed, I guess.
Thx
Eren
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