regular expressions and internationalization (WAS: permuting letters...)

[Dieter Maurer]

Steven Bethard <steven.bethard at gmail.com> writes on Fri, 12 Nov 2004 20:15:28 +0000 (UTC):
> ...
> Is there any way to match \w but not \d?

It is:  r'(?!\d)\w'

The '(?!...)' is called a negative lookahead.