Jens Lechtenboerger wrote: > I'm looking for a regular expression to recognize natural language > words with umlauts but without numbers. While \w with re.U does > recognize words with umlauts, it also matches numbers, which I do > not want. > > Is there a better way than an exhaustive enumeration such as > [-a-zàáâãäåæ...]? > > I guess there should be a better way as \w appears to know about > alphabetical characters...
How about [^\W\d] ? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
