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Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 06:33:23 -0700
From: Albert-Jan Roskam <fomcl@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Letter class in re
To: python-list@python.org, Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com>
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On Mon, 3/9/15, Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: Letter class in re
 To: python-list@python.org
 Date: Monday, March 9, 2015, 12:17 PM
=20
 On 2015-03-09 11:37,
 Wolfgang Maier wrote:
 > On 03/09/2015
 11:23 AM, Antoon Pardon wrote:
 >> Does
 anyone know what regular expression to use for a sequence
 of
 >> letters? There is a class for
 alphanumerics but I can't find one
 >> for just letters, which I find odd.
 >=20
 > how about [a-zA-Z]
 ?
=20
 That breaks if you have
 Unicode letters.=A0 While ugly, since "\w" is
 composed of "letters, numbers, and
 underscores", you can assert that
 the
 "\w" you find is not a number or underscore by
 using
=20
 =A0 (?:(?!_|\d)\w)
=20

I was going to make the same remark, but with a slightly different solution=
:=20
In [1]: repr(re.search("[a-zA-Z]", "=E9"))
Out[1]: 'None'
=20
In [2]: repr(re.search(u"[^\d\W_]+", u"=E9", re.I | re.U))
Out[2]: '<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x027CDB10>'

"[^\d\W_]+" means something like "one or more (+) of 'not (a digit, a non-w=
ord, an underscore)'.