sre is broken in SuSE 9.2

Thu Feb 10 10:45:03 EST 2005

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 16:23:09 +0100
Daniel Dittmar <daniel.dittmar at sap.corp> wrote:

> Denis S. Otkidach wrote:
> 
> > On all platfroms \w matches all unicode letters when used with flag
> > re.UNICODE, but this doesn't work on SuSE 9.2:
> 
> I think Python on SuSE 9.2 uses UCS4 for unicode strings (as does 
> RedHat), check sys.maxunicode.
> 
> This is not an explanation, but perhaps a hint where to look.

Yes, it uses UCS4.  But debian build with UCS4 works fine, so this is
not a problem.  Can --with-wctype-functions configure option be the
source of problem?

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Denis S. Otkidach
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