On 01/06/2015 21:29, Tim Chase wrote:
Is Python supposed to support POSIX "equivalence classes"?  I tried
the following in Py2 and Py3:

   >>> re.sub('[[=a=]]', 'A', 'aáàãâä', re.U)
   'aáàãâä'

which suggests that it doesn't (I would have expected "AAAAAA" as the
result).

Is there a way to get this behavior?

I found that perl knows about them but treats them as an exception
for now[1].  Supposedly GNU awk (and other GNU POSIXish tools)
recognize character classes, as does vim.

Thanks,

-tkc

[1]
http://perldoc.perl.org/perlrecharclass.html


I wouldn't know directly as I tend to avoid them like the plague, but if not are they in the "new" regex module, see https://pypi.python.org/pypi/regex/2015.05.28 and/or http://bugs.python.org/issue2636 ???

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