Serge Orlov wrote: >> >>> re.compile(ur'\w+', re.U).findall(u'\xb5\xba\xe4\u0430') >> [u'\xb5\xba\xe4\u0430'] > > I can't find the strict definition of isalpha, but I believe average > C program shouldn't care about the current locale alphabet, so isalpha > is a union of all supported characters in all alphabets
nope. isalpha() depends on the locale, as does all other ctype functions (this also applies to wctype, on some platforms). </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
