Matching only a unicode letter in Python re

Question

I have a string from which i want to extract 3 groups:

\'19 janvier 2012\' -> \'19\', \'janvier\', \'2012\'

Month name could contain non

Answer 1

You can construct a new character class:

[^\W\d_]

instead of \w. Translated into English, it means "Any character that is not a non-alphanumeric character ([^\W] is the same as \w), but that is also not a digit and not an underscore".

Therefore, it will only allow Unicode letters (if you use the re.UNICODE compile option).