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Author	mrabarnett
Recipients	belopolsky, mark.dickinson, mrabarnett, stiv
Date	2010-12-14.19:47:12
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Message-id	<[email protected]>
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The regex module is intended to replace the re module, so its default behaviour is the same: in Python 2, regexes default to matching ASCII, and in Python 3, they default to matching Unicode. If you want to use a regex on a Unicode string in Python 2 then you need to set the Unicode flag, either by providing the UNICODE flag or by putting "(?u)" in the regex itself.

The regex module is intended to replace the re module, so its default behaviour is the same: in Python 2, regexes default to matching ASCII, and in Python 3, they default to matching Unicode.

If you want to use a regex on a Unicode string in Python 2 then you need to set the Unicode flag, either by providing the UNICODE flag or by putting "(?u)" in the regex itself.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2010-12-14 19:47:28	mrabarnett	set	recipients: + mrabarnett, mark.dickinson, belopolsky, stiv
2010-12-14 19:47:28	mrabarnett	set	messageid: <[email protected]>
2010-12-14 19:47:12	mrabarnett	link	issue10703 messages
2010-12-14 19:47:12	mrabarnett	create