sre is broken in SuSE 9.2

[Fredrik Lundh]

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?

yes.

that option disables Python's own Unicode database, and relies on the C library's
wctype.h (iswalpha, etc) to behave properly for Unicode characters.  this isn't true
for all environments.

is this an official SuSE release?  do they often release stuff that hasn't been tested
at all?

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