[ python-Bugs-1285809 ] re special sequence '\w'

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Bugs item #1285809, was opened at 2005-09-09 09:40
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Status: Open
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Priority: 5
Submitted By: ChristianJ (cybb20)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: re special sequence '\w' 

Initial Comment:
>>> rexp = re.compile('\w', re.LOCALE)
>>> rexp.findall('_')
['_']
>>> '_'.isalnum()
False

While the Python docs say, that the underscore is 
supported, I strongly ask why this is so? 
The problem is that I want to match a sequence of 
alphanumeric characters but excluding the underscore.
If you defined \w to not support "_" anymore, people 
could easily check for the "_" as well with \w|_ .

My locale is "de_DE" but it does affect other locales as 
well.


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