Fredrik Lundh wrote: > 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 > > btw, what does isalpha have to do with this example?
It has to do with this thread. u'\xe4'.isalpha() returns false in Suse. It's in the same boat as \w Serge. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list