Op 09-03-15 om 11:37 schreef Wolfgang Maier: > On 03/09/2015 11:23 AM, Antoon Pardon wrote: >> I am using PLY for a parsing task which uses re for the lexical >> analysis. Does anyone >> know what regular expression to use for a sequence of letters? There is >> a class for alphanumerics but I can't find one for just letters, which I >> find odd. >> >> I am using python 3.4 >> > > how about [a-zA-Z] ? > No, that limits the characters to ASCII-letters.
This is what the doc says about the alphanumeric class: \w For Unicode(str) patternsL Matches Unicode word characters; this includes most characters that can be part of a word in any language, as well as numbers and the underscore. If the ASCII flag is used, only [a-zA-Z0-9_] is matched. ... So what I want is a class that just includes those characters that can be part of a word in any language. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list