Re: Enabling the use of POSIX character classes in Python

2010-12-11 Thread Perry Johnson
On 2010-12-11, MRAB wrote: > On 11/12/2010 17:33, Perry Johnson wrote: >> Python's re module does not support POSIX character classes, for >> example [:alpha:]. It is, of course, trivial to simulate them using >> character ranges when the text to be matched uses the ASC

Enabling the use of POSIX character classes in Python

2010-12-11 Thread Perry Johnson
Python's re module does not support POSIX character classes, for example [:alpha:]. It is, of course, trivial to simulate them using character ranges when the text to be matched uses the ASCII character set. Sadly, my problem is that I need to process Unicode text. The re module has its own charact

Re: Subprocesses and Ctrl-C handling on windows

2010-11-28 Thread Perry Johnson
On 2010-11-28, Perry Johnson wrote: > I have a python script which spawns a subprocess that takes a few > seconds to complete. If I hit Ctrl-C while the subprocess is > executing, sometimes the python script and the subprocess end silently > and I get back to the shell prompt and som

Subprocesses and Ctrl-C handling on windows

2010-11-28 Thread Perry Johnson
I have a python script which spawns a subprocess that takes a few seconds to complete. If I hit Ctrl-C while the subprocess is executing, sometimes the python script and the subprocess end silently and I get back to the shell prompt and sometimes I get the KeyboardInterrupt exception. Is there any