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matching unicode characters in python regular expressions

Using

re.findall(r'\w+', ip)

on Fältskog returns F and ltskog. I tried with both strings and unicode but the same. result

Answer 1

You need to set the appropriate flags (in this case UNICODE to tell re what \w means):

re.findall(r'\w+', ip, re.UNICODE)

# EDIT

Python 2.7.3 (default, Aug  1 2012, 05:16:07) 
[GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
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>>> import re
>>> re.findall(r"\w+", u"Fältskog", re.UNICODE)
[u'F\xe4ltskog']
>>>