locale flag behaviour - independent of locale.setlocale()

[jamadden]

locale flag behaviour - independent of locale.setlocale()

[GoogleCodeExporter]

CPython is written in C, as you know, and the LOCALE flag just makes it use the 
C functions "isalpha", etc.

The LOCALE flag is supported only because the re module has it, and should give 
the same results, whatever they may be...

Original comment by [email protected] on 2 Apr 2011 at 10:18

• Changed state: WontFix

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Thanks for the prompt answer;
although I don't quite get, what the results are supposed to be and how they 
conform to:
http://docs.python.org/library/re.html#re.LOCALE
Make \w, \W, \b, \B, \s and \S dependent on the current locale.

But it is probably another peculiarity of using locales one should be aware of 
:-)

vbr

Original comment by [email protected] on 2 Apr 2011 at 10:33

[GoogleCodeExporter]

I don't understand it either. As long as it's no worse than re (and for 
compatibility reasons, perhaps it should be the same as re), it's not something 
I'll lose sleep over. After all, Unicode is the way! :-)

(If someone changes re to act how you expect, then I'll just copy that code. If 
the changes are elsewhere in Python, then you'll get the fix irrespective of 
whether you're using re or regex.)

Original comment by [email protected] on 2 Apr 2011 at 11:04