Full name
re.ASCII
Library
re
Syntax
re.ASCII
Description
The re.ASCII search modifier forces the symbols \w, \W, \b, \B, \d, \D, \s, and \S to rely on ASCII code to find text matches, rather than in Unicode.
Parameters
The re.ASCII search modifier takes no arguments.
Examples
If we start from the following text and regular expression:
text = "la cigüeña es bonita" # the stork is pretty
pattern = r"\w+"
pattern = r"\w+"
...searching for all matches of the search pattern with re.findall returns, by default, the following result:
re.findall(pattern, text)
['la', 'cigüeña', 'es', 'bonita']
If we force the ASCII code to be considered for the identification of matches, the result changes:
re.findall(pattern, text, flags = re.ASCII)
['la', 'cig', 'e', 'a', 'es', 'bonita']
