Handling Accented Characters With Python Regular Expressions

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        [A-z] just isn't good enough!

import re
string = 'riché'
print string
riché

richre = re.compile('([A-z]+)')
match = richre.match(string)
print match.groups()
('rich',)

richre = re.compile('(\w+)',re.LOCALE)
match = richre.match(string)
print match.groups()
('rich',)

richre = re.compile('([é\w]+)')
match = richre.match(string)
print match.groups()
('rich\xe9',)

richre = re.compile('([\xe9\w]+)')
match = richre.match(string)
print match.groups()
('rich\xe9',)

richre = re.compile('([\xe9-\xf8\w]+)')
match = richre.match(string)
print match.groups()
('rich\xe9',)

string = 'richéñ'
match = richre.match(string)
print match.groups()
('rich\xe9\xf1',)

richre = re.compile('([\u00E9-\u00F8\w]+)')
print match.groups()
('rich\xe9\xf1',)

matched = match.group(1)
print matched
richéñ

Tags:
• expressions
• Python
• regular
• Unicode