On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 12:41 PM, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > Getting full case folding to work can be tricky. There's always going to > be a limit to what's worth doing. > > There are also areas where it's not clear what the result should be. > You've already mentioned matching 's' against 'ß' (fails) and matching > 'ss' against 'ß' (succeeds), but how about matching '(s)(s)' against 'ß' > (fails)? > > For the record, Perl also says that 'ss' matches 'ß', but 's+' does not.
I would find it helpful to know the exact rules. The regex module docs say that it works, but don't say what it means to "work". -- Devin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
