On 2011-05-13, Peter Otten wrote: > 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] ?
Brilliant. Thanks Jens -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
