On all platfroms \w matches all unicode letters when used with flag re.UNICODE, but this doesn't work on SuSE 9.2:
Python 2.3.4 (#1, Dec 17 2004, 19:56:48) [GCC 3.3.4 (pre 3.3.5 20040809)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import re >>> re.compile(ur'\w+', re.U).match(u'\xe4') >>> BTW, is correctly recognize this character as lowercase letter: >>> import unicodedata >>> unicodedata.category(u'\xe4') 'Ll' I've looked through all SuSE patches applied, but found nothing related. What is the reason for broken behavior? Incorrect configure options? -- Denis S. Otkidach http://www.python.ru/ [ru] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
