Hebrew regex word boundries

[Yuval Adam]

I'm trying to get the following regex to match full words in Hebrew unicode strings:

    word = re.compile(r'\bמילה', re.U)  # note the unicode flag

… but not succeeding in actually matching my words against that pattern.

What am I doing wrong? Shouldn't it be possible to find word boundaries (\b) in unicode strings?

[Yuval Adam]

Also signified by this pathologic test case:

    >>> re.compile(r'\W', re.U).split('לא עובד השיט הזה')

    ['', '', '', … '']

[Meir Kriheli]

For a start, you should use re.search instead:

http://docs.python.org/2/library/re.html#search-vs-match

Plus, unless you're using python 3, the above are not unicode strings.

Cheers

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[Meir Kriheli]

Hi,

>>> re.compile(r'\W', re.U).split('לא עובד השיט הזה'.decode('utf-8'))

[u'\u05dc\u05d0', u'\u05e2\u05d5\u05d1\u05d3', u'\u05d4\u05e9\u05d9\u05d8', u'\u05d4\u05d6\u05d4']

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[Yuval Adam]

Fuckin' unicode. Thanks.