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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 11:07:11 -0600
Subject: Re: Script for finding words of any size that do NOT contain vowels with acute diacritic marks?
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On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 9:32 AM,  <wxjmfauth@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> import unicodedata
>>>> def HasDiacritics(w):
> ...     w_decomposed =3D unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', w)
> ...     return 'no' if len(w) =3D=3D len(w_decomposed) else 'yes'
> ...
>>>> HasDiacritics('=E9l=E9phant')
> 'yes'
>>>> HasDiacritics('elephant')
> 'no'
>>>> HasDiacritics('\N{LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS AND MACRON}')
> 'yes'
>>>> HasDiacritics('U')
> 'no'

Is there something wrong with True and False that you had to replace
them with strings?

"return len(w) !=3D len(w_decomposed)" is all you need.