Re: Unicode strings and ascii regular expressions


Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Fuzzyman wrote:
>
> > Can someone confirm that compiled regular expressions from ascii
> > strings will always (and safely) yield unicode values when matched
> > against unicode strings ?
[snip..]
>
> ascii patterns work just fine on unicode strings. the engine doesn't care
> what string type you use for the pattern, and it always returns slices of
> the target string, so you get back what you pass in.
>

Thanks - that's what I hoped. :-)

All the best,

Fuzzyman
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml

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