so the default behaviour differs for unicode and re working on unicode. I suppose that won't be true in Python 3.
import re
print(re.compile(r'\s').search('a b'))
print(re.compile(r'\s').search('a\xa0b') )
>>> ================================ RESTART ===============
>>>
<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x00ADAA68>
<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x00ADAA68>
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