Hello, why can't I use this pattern
good = re.compile("^[A-ZÄÖÜ].*") in python3. According to the documentation, patterns may be unicode strings. I get this error message: Traceback (most recent call last): File "./get.py", line 8, in <module> for line in sys.stdin: File "/usr/lib64/python3.0/io.py", line 1734, in __next__ line = self.readline() File "/usr/lib64/python3.0/io.py", line 1808, in readline while self._read_chunk(): File "/usr/lib64/python3.0/io.py", line 1557, in _read_chunk self._set_decoded_chars(self._decoder.decode(input_chunk, eof)) File "/usr/lib64/python3.0/codecs.py", line 300, in decode (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final) UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 0-1: invalid data Simon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list