Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: First, in the context of Python a crash means a core dump or an analogue on Windows. In this case the code just works not as you expected.
The short answer: s should be a unicode. In your code "ä" is encoded as 8-bit string '\xc3\xa4'. When matched, every bytes is independently expanded to Unicode range. The first byte becomes u'\xc3' = u'Ã', the second byte becomes u'¤', non-alphanumeric. '[\s\w]*' doesn't match u'ä'. "ü" is encoded as 8-bit string '\xc3\xbc'. The second byte becomes u'¼', numeric. '[\s\w]*' matches u'ü'. ---------- resolution: -> not a bug stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue26784> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
