ignore case only for a part of the regex?

[wxjmfauth at gmail.com]

Le mercredi 2 janvier 2013 00:09:45 UTC+1, Vlastimil Brom a écrit :
> 2013/1/1 Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info>:
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> > On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 10:20:19 -0500, Roy Smith wrote:
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> >
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> >> The way I would typically do something like this is build my regexes in
> 
> >> all lower case and .lower() the text I was matching against them.  I'm
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> >> curious what you're doing where you want to enforce case sensitivity in
> 
> >> one part of a header, but not in another.
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> >
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> > Well, sometimes you have things that are case sensitive, and other things
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> > which are not, and sometimes you need to match them at the same time. I
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> > don't think this is any more unusual than (say) wanting to match an
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> > otherwise lowercase word whether or not it comes at the start of a
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> > sentence:
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> >
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> > "[Pp]rogramming"
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> >
> 
> > is conceptually equivalent to "match case-insensitive `p`, and case-
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> > sensitive `rogramming`".
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> >
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> >
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> > By the way, although there is probably nothing you can (easily) do about
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> > this prior to Python 3.3, converting to lowercase is not the right way to
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> > do case-insensitive matching. It happens to work correctly for ASCII, but
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> > it is not correct for all alphabetic characters.
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> >
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> >
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> > py> 'Straße'.lower()
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> > 'straße'
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> > py> 'Straße'.upper()
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> > 'STRASSE'
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> >
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> >
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> > The right way is to casefold first, then match:
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> >
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> > py> 'Straße'.casefold()
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> > 'strasse'
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> >
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> >
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> > Curiously, there is an uppercase ß in old German. In recent years some
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> > typographers have started using it instead of SS, but it's still rare,
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> > and the official German rules have ß transform into SS and vice versa.
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> > It's in Unicode, but few fonts show it:
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> >
> 
> > py> unicodedata.lookup('LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S')
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> > 'ẞ'
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> >
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> >
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> >
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> > --
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> > Steven
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> > --
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> > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> just for completeness, the mentioned regex library can take care of
> 
> casfolding in case insensitive matching (in all supported versions:
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> Python 2.5-2.7 and 3.1-3.3); i.e.:
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> # case sensitive match:
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> >>> for m in regex.findall(ur"Straße", u" STRAßE STRASSE STRAẞE Strasse Straße "): print m
> 
> ...
> 
> Straße
> 
> 
> 
> # case insensitive match:
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> >>> for m in regex.findall(ur"(?i)Straße", u" STRAßE STRASSE STRAẞE Strasse Straße "): print m
> 
> ...
> 
> STRAßE
> 
> STRAẞE
> 
> Straße
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> 
> 
> # case insensitive match with casefolding:
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> >>> for m in regex.findall(ur"(?if)Straße", u" STRAßE STRASSE STRAẞE Strasse Straße "): print m
> 
> ...
> 
> STRAßE
> 
> STRASSE
> 
> STRAẞE
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> Strasse
> 
> Straße
> 
> >>>
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> >>>
> 
> 
> 
> # after enabling the backwards incompatible modern matching behaviour,
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> casefolding is by default turned on for case insensitive matches
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> >>> for m in regex.findall(ur"(?V1i)Straße", u" STRAßE STRASSE STRAẞE Strasse Straße "): print m
> 
> ...
> 
> STRAßE
> 
> STRASSE
> 
> STRAẞE
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> Strasse
> 
> Straße
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> >>>
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> 
> 
> 
> 
> As a small addition, the originally posted pattern r'^Msg-(?:(?i)id):'
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> would actually work as expected in this modern matching mode in regex
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> - enabled with the V1 flag. In this case the flag-setting (?i) only
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> affects the following parts of the pattern, not the whole pattern like
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> in the current "re" and V0-compatibility-mode "regex"
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> 
> 
> >>> regex.findall(r"(?V1)Msg-(?:(?i)id):", "the regex should match  Msg-id:, Msg-Id:, ...  but not  msg-id:, MSG-ID:  and so on")
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> ['Msg-id:', 'Msg-Id:']
> 

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Vlastimil:

Excellent.

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Steven:

..." It's in Unicode, but few fonts show it:" ...

Das grosse Eszett is a member of the unicode subsets MES-2, WGL-4.
Good - serious - fonts are via OpenType MES-2 or WGL-4 compliant.
So, it is a no problem.

I do not know (and I did not check) if the code point, 1e9e, is part of
the utf32 table.

jmf