Denis S. Otkidach wrote: >> > On all platfroms \w matches all unicode letters when used with flag >> > re.UNICODE, but this doesn't work on SuSE 9.2: >> >> I think Python on SuSE 9.2 uses UCS4 for unicode strings (as does >> RedHat), check sys.maxunicode. >> >> This is not an explanation, but perhaps a hint where to look. > > Yes, it uses UCS4. But debian build with UCS4 works fine, so this is > not a problem. Can --with-wctype-functions configure option be the > source of problem?
yes. that option disables Python's own Unicode database, and relies on the C library's wctype.h (iswalpha, etc) to behave properly for Unicode characters. this isn't true for all environments. is this an official SuSE release? do they often release stuff that hasn't been tested at all? </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
