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From: Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject: Re: re.finditer() skips unicode into selection
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 16:14:48 -0400
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On 6/26/2013 3:18 PM, akshay.ksth@gmail.com wrote:
> I am using the following Highlighter class for Spell Checking to work o=
n my QTextEdit.
>
> class Highlighter(QSyntaxHighlighter):
>      pattern =3D ur'\w+'
>      def __init__(self, *args):
>          QSyntaxHighlighter.__init__(self, *args)
>          self.dict =3D None
>
>      def setDict(self, dict):
>          self.dict =3D dict
>
>      def highlightBlock(self, text):
>          if not self.dict:
>              return
>          text =3D unicode(text)
>          format =3D QTextCharFormat()
>          format.setUnderlineColor(Qt.red)
>          format.setUnderlineStyle(QTextCharFormat.SpellCheckUnderline)
>          unicode_pattern=3Dre.compile(self.pattern,re.UNICODE|re.LOCALE=
)
>
>          for word_object in unicode_pattern.finditer(text):
>              if not self.dict.spell(word_object.group()):
>                  print word_object.group()
>                  self.setFormat(word_object.start(), word_object.end() =
- word_object.start(), format)
>
> But whenever I pass unicode values into my QTextEdit the re.finditer() =
does not seem to collect it.
>
> When I pass "I am a =E0=A4=A8=E0=A5=87=E0=A4=AA=E0=A4=BE=E0=A4=B2=E0=A5=
=80" into the QTextEdit. The output is like this:
>
>      I I I a I am I am I am a I am a I am a I am a I am a I am a I am a=
 I am a
>
> It is completely ignoring the unicode.

The whole text is unicode. It is ignoring the non-ascii, as you asked it =

to with re.LOCALE.

With 3.3.2:
import re

pattern =3D re.compile(r'\w+', re.LOCALE)
text =3D "I am a =E0=A4=A8=E0=A5=87=E0=A4=AA=E0=A4=BE=E0=A4=B2=E0=A5=80"

for word in pattern.finditer(text):
     print(word.group())
 >>>
I
am
a

Delete ', re.LOCALE' and the following are also printed:
=E0=A4=A8
=E0=A4=AA
=E0=A4=B2

There is an issue on the tracker about the vowel marks in =E0=A4=A8=E0=A5=
=87=E0=A4=AA=E0=A4=BE=E0=A4=B2=E0=A5=80 being=20
mis-seen as word separators, but that is another issue.

Lesson: when you do not understand output, simplify code to see what=20
changes. Separating re issues from framework issues is a big step in=20
that direction.

? What might be the issue. I am new to PyQt and regex. Im using Python=20
2.7 and PyQt4.

--=20
Terry Jan Reedy