unicode "em space" in regex

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Xah Lee wrote:
> how to represent the unicode "em space" in regex?

You will have to pass a Unicode literal as the regular expression,
e.g.

 fracture=re.split(u'\u2003*\\|\u2003*',myline,re.U)

Notice that, in raw Unicode literals, you can still use \u to
escape characters, e.g.

 fracture=re.split(ur'\u2003*\|\u2003*',myline,re.U)

Regards,
Martin