Unicode friendly alphabetic pattern for python regex?

Question

I'm looking for a pattern equivalent to \w, and which doesn't match numeric pattern. I cannot use [a-zA-Z] because I would like it to match japanese kanjis as well.

Is there a way to write something like [\w^[0-9]] ? Is there an equivalent of [:alpha:] in python regex?

John Kugelman · Accepted Answer · 2009-06-28 16:15:27Z

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[^\W\d]

Throw out non-word characters and throw out digits. Keep the rest.

edited Jun 28, 2009 at 16:15

answered Jun 28, 2009 at 16:09

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tzot Over a year ago

I honestly bow before your greatness :)

John Machin Over a year ago

Excellent. This throws out ALL Unicode digit characters, not just the ASCII [0-9].

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