R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com added the comment:
I don't know what re is doing with respect to locale, but I do know that the
implementation of string.letters is at least somewhat broken in 2.x. It has no
useful meaning in unicode, which is why it doesn't exist in 3.x.
A standard
Vlastimil Brom vlastimil.b...@gmail.com added the comment:
Thanks for the comment for string.letters and further reference.
Given, that Mr. Barnett mentioned in his tracker to regex (
http://code.google.com/p/mrab-regex-hg/issues/detail?id=6 ), that he only
supports the LOCALE flag because of
R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com added the comment:
Yeah, as far as I could tell from a brief scan of google hits, locale support
in regex in general is a legacy thing, and the correct thing to do is to use
unicode properties. So I'll close this as won't fix. If someone comes along
New submission from Vlastimil Brom vlastimil.b...@gmail.com:
Hi,
I just noticed a behaviour of the re.LOCALE flag I can't understand; I first
reported this to the new regex implementation, which, however, only mimics the
standard lib re in this case:
Changes by Ezio Melotti ezio.melo...@gmail.com:
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nosy: +ezio.melotti, mrabarnett
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