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Author	sven.siegmund
Recipients	sven.siegmund
Date	2008-05-12.08:43:24
SpamBayes Score	0.06982748
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Message-id	<1210581845.07.0.550614143529.issue2834@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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re cannot ignore case of special latin characters: Python 3.0a5 (py3k:62932M, May 9 2008, 16:23:11) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 >>> 'Á'.lower() == 'á' and 'á'.upper() == 'Á' True >>> import re >>> rx = re.compile('Á', re.IGNORECASE) >>> rx.match('á') # should match but won't >>> rx.match('Á') # will match <_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x014B08A8> >>> rx = re.compile('á', re.IGNORECASE) >>> rx.match('Á') # should match but won't >>> rx.match('á') # will match <_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x014B08A8>

re cannot ignore case of special latin characters:

Python 3.0a5 (py3k:62932M, May  9 2008, 16:23:11) [MSC v.1500 32 bit 
(Intel)] on win32
>>> 'Á'.lower() == 'á' and 'á'.upper() == 'Á'
True
>>> import re
>>> rx = re.compile('Á', re.IGNORECASE)
>>> rx.match('á') # should match but won't
>>> rx.match('Á') # will match
<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x014B08A8>
>>> rx = re.compile('á', re.IGNORECASE)
>>> rx.match('Á') # should match but won't
>>> rx.match('á') # will match
<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x014B08A8>

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Date	User	Action	Args
2008-05-12 08:44:14	sven.siegmund	set	spambayes_score: 0.0698275 -> 0.06982748 recipients: + sven.siegmund
2008-05-12 08:44:10	sven.siegmund	set	spambayes_score: 0.0698275 -> 0.0698275 messageid: <1210581845.07.0.550614143529.issue2834@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2008-05-12 08:44:01	sven.siegmund	link	issue2834 messages
2008-05-12 08:43:55	sven.siegmund	create