unicode strings and such

[Garth Grimm]

Thanks for the bug catch.  Our test cases for this code seem to have been so focused on the 
international character issues that we failed to check the upper/lower case.

Garth

Marc Christiansen wrote:

> Garth Grimm <garth_grimm at hp.com> wrote:
> 
> One thing apparently nobody noticed until now, this line
> 
>>     patternRegex = re.compile(pattern,re.UNICODE or re.IGNORECASE)
>>
> 
> should probably read
>      patternRegex = re.compile(pattern,re.UNICODE | re.IGNORECASE)
> (or use '+' instead of '|', in this case it doesn't matter).
> 'or' is the logical or, not the binary (or however it is called).
> To see the difference, do a
> 
> print re.UNICODE, re.IGNORECASE
> print re.UNICODE or re.IGNORECASE, re.UNICODE | re.IGNORECASE
> 
> from the python prompt.
> 
> HTH
>   Marc
>