On 23 fév, 15:26, Devin Jeanpierre wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm pretty unsure of myself when it comes to unicode. As I understand
> it, you're generally supposed to compare things in a case insensitive
> manner by case folding, right? So instead of a.lower() == b.lower()
> (the ASCII way), you do a.
On 2013-02-23 18:57, Devin Jeanpierre wrote:
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 1:12 PM, MRAB
wrote:
The basic rule is that a series of characters in the regex must
match a series of characters in the text, with no partial matches
in either.
For example, 'ss' can match 'ß', but 's' can't match 'ß' becaus
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 1:12 PM, MRAB wrote:
> The basic rule is that a series of characters in the regex must match a
> series of characters in the text, with no partial matches in either.
>
> For example, 'ss' can match 'ß', but 's' can't match 'ß' because that
> would be matching part of 'ß'.
>
On 2013-02-23 17:51, Devin Jeanpierre wrote:
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 12:41 PM, MRAB
wrote:
Getting full case folding to work can be tricky. There's always
going to be a limit to what's worth doing.
There are also areas where it's not clear what the result should
be. You've already mentioned ma
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 12:41 PM, MRAB wrote:
> Getting full case folding to work can be tricky. There's always going to
> be a limit to what's worth doing.
>
> There are also areas where it's not clear what the result should be.
> You've already mentioned matching 's' against 'ß' (fails) and matc
On 2013-02-23 15:30, Devin Jeanpierre wrote:
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Devin Jeanpierre
wrote:
However, regex has the same behavior.
My apologies, I forgot to set the VERSION1 flag.
Interesting. 'ss' matches 'ß', but 's+' does not.
Is this desirable behavior?
Getting full case fol
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Devin Jeanpierre
wrote:
> However, regex has the same behavior.
My apologies, I forgot to set the VERSION1 flag.
Interesting. 'ss' matches 'ß', but 's+' does not.
Is this desirable behavior?
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On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Vlastimil Brom
wrote:
> you may check the new regex implementation
> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/regex
> which does support casefolding in case insensitive matches (beyond
> many other features and improvements comparing to re)
Good point, I've been looking only
2013/2/23 Devin Jeanpierre :
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm pretty unsure of myself when it comes to unicode. As I understand
> it, you're generally supposed to compare things in a case insensitive
> manner by case folding, right? So instead of a.lower() == b.lower()
> (the ASCII way), you do a.casefold() ==
