sre is broken in SuSE 9.2

[Serge Orlov]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Serge Orlov wrote:
>
>>>>>> re.compile(ur'\w+', re.U).findall(u'\xb5\xba\xe4\u0430')
>>>>>> [u'\xb5\xba\xe4\u0430']
>>
>> I can't find the strict definition of isalpha, but I believe average
>> C program shouldn't care about the current locale alphabet, so
>> isalpha is a union of all supported characters in all alphabets
>
> btw, what does isalpha have to do with this example?

It has to do with this thread. u'\xe4'.isalpha() returns false in
Suse. It's in the same boat as \w

  Serge.