On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:44:12 +0100, Simon Strobl <simon.str...@gmail.com>
wrote:
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
What on earth makes you think this is anything to do with the
regular expression? It looks more like it's complaining about
what you've typed in at the console.
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