Python regex uppercase unicode word

Question

I need to find abbreviations text in many languages. Current regex is:

import regex as re
pattern = re.compile(\'(?:[\\w]\\.)+\', re.UNICODE | re.MULTILINE |         


        

Answer 1

You need to use a Unicode character property in order to match them. re does not support character properties, but regex does.

>>> regex.findall(ur'\p{Lu}', u'ÜìÑ')
[u'\xdc', u'\xd1']