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From: Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 10:26:40 -0500
Subject: Re: Correct handling of case in unicode and regexps
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On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Vlastimil Brom
<vlastimil.brom@gmail.com> 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 at re, but maybe regex is more
pertinent after a point.

However, regex has the same behavior.

>>> regex.match('ss', '=C3=9F', regex.UNICODE | regex.IGNORECASE)
>>>

-- Devin