Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:
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You have to give the re module an additional hint that you care about
unicode:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ python
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jul 31 2008, 17:28:52) [GCC 4.2.3 (Ubuntu
4.2.3-2ubuntu7)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import re
>>> print re.compile(r'\s').search(u'a\xa0b')
None
>>> print re.compile(r'\s', re.U).search(u'a\xa0b')
<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0xb7dbb3a0>
>>>
Jean-Paul
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so the default behaviour differs for unicode and re working on unicode. I
suppose that won't be true in Python 3.
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Robin Becker
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