Python and Cyrillic characters in regular expression

[Fredrik Lundh]

phasma wrote:

> Hi, I'm trying extract all alphabetic characters from string.
> 
> reg = re.compile('(?u)([\w\s]+)', re.UNICODE)
> buf = re.match(string)
> 
> But it's doesn't work. If string starts from Cyrillic character, all
> works fine. But if string starts from Latin character, match returns
> only Latin characters.

can you provide a few sample strings that show this behaviour?

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