How to implement \p{L} in python regex

Question

I was trying to match all the string that contain one word in any language. My search led me to \\p{...} which was absent in python\'s Re module. But I found https://pypi.py

Answer 1

You should pass unicode. (Both regular expression and the string)

import sys

import regex


def main(patterns):
    patterns = [regex.compile(p) for p in patterns]
    for line in sys.stdin:
        line = line.decode('utf8')
        for regexp in patterns:
            if regexp.search (line):
                print line.strip('\n')

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main([ur'^\d+\t(\p{L}|\p{M})+$', ])