Opening and reading randomly text file with umlauts and accents truncates output - unicode how?

[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> synthespian <synthespian at uol.com.br> (S) writes:

S> das Appartement, Appartements
S> das Auge, Augen
S> das Bad, Bäder
S> das Bein, Beine
S> das Beispiel, Beispiele
S> das Buch, Bücher
S> das Büro, Büros
S> das Café, Cafés

S> p = re.compile('^(der|die|das(\s\w+))')

If \w doesn't match the accented letters then probably your locale isn't
set properly.
A simple locale-independent solution would be to enumerate the characters
yourself, like [A-Za-zäöüé...]
Or just use the fact that the words are terminated by a comma (or maybe
space)

p = re.compile('^(der|die|das(\s[^ ,]+))')

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