Does pyparsing support UNICODE strings?

[could ildg]

I want to parse some Chinese words.
It seems that pyparsing doesn't work for me.
Thank you.
I have to use re directly, although it's harder, but it'll always work.

On 8/4/05, Robert Kern <rkern at ucsd.edu> wrote:
> could ildg wrote:
> > pyparsing is very convenient to use. But I want to find some a py tool
> > to parse non-English strings. Does pyparsing support UNICODE strings?
> > If not, can someone tell me what py tool can do it? Thanks in advance.
> 
> Try it!
> 
> # vim:fileencoding=utf-8
> 
> from pyparsing import Word
> 
> text = "Καλημέρα, κόσμε!".decode('utf-8')
> alphas = u''.join(unichr(x) for x in xrange(0x386, 0x3ce))
> 
> greet = Word(alphas) + u',' + Word(alphas) + u'!'
> greeting = greet.parseString(text)
> print greeting
> 
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