Dick Moores wrote:
> Kent Johnson wrote at 19:21 10/13/2005:
>
>> > BTW in redemo.py, what do the checkboxes VERBOSE, LOCALE, and DOTALL
>> > mean? (I understand IGNORECASE and MULTILINE.)
>>
>> http://docs.python.org/lib/node115.html
>
>
> OK, but that didn't help with LOCALE. From
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locale
> LOCALE seems to be something I don't need to worry about for a while.
LOCALE
Make \w, \W, \b, \B, \s and \S dependent on the current locale.
Locale is a setting that affects some operations that differ in different
cultures, for example whether a . or , is used as a decimal separator and what
the money symbol is. You can access locale settings with the locale module.
The list of word and space characters can differ by locale. This affects the
meaning of the \ escapes noted above. Even setting the locale to 'en' (from the
default 'C' locale) changes the default letters:
>>> import string, locale
>>> string.letters
'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'en')
'English_United States.1252'
>>> string.letters
'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz\x83\x8a\x8c\x8e\x9a\x9c\x9e\x9f\xc0\xc1\xc2\xc3\xc4\xc5\xc6\xc7\xc8\xc9\xca\xcb\xcc\xcd\xce\xcf\
xd0\xd1\xd2\xd3\xd4\xd5\xd6\xd8\xd9\xda\xdb\xdc\xdd\xde\xdf\xe0\xe1\xe2\xe3\xe4\xe5\xe6\xe7\xe8\xe9\xea\xeb\xec\xed\xee\xef\xf0\xf1\xf2\xf3\xf4\xf5\xf
6\xf8\xf9\xfa\xfb\xfc\xfd\xfe\xff'
>>>
Kent
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