[issue14068] problem with re split

[Ramchandra Apte]

Ramchandra Apte <maniandram01 at gmail.com> added the comment:

The problem is not in re, it is because you are passing '。' to re.split which in Python 2.x is actually passed as '\xe3\x80\x82'.
You should pass u'。' to re.compile.
Could we raise a SyntaxError when in a progam a unicode character is in a bytes string?
Python 3 does so; it raises "SyntaxError: bytes can only contain ASCII literal characters." when you execute b'。'

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