Title: Disagreement with CPython about which unicode characters are alnum · Issue #7518 · RustPython/RustPython · GitHub
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Description: Summary The regex module interprets \w as matching more characters than it seems like it should (certainly more than CPython does). Expected import re assert not re.match(r"\w", "\u0345"), r"\w should not match U+0345 (category Mn)" This...
Open Graph Description: Summary The regex module interprets \w as matching more characters than it seems like it should (certainly more than CPython does). Expected import re assert not re.match(r"\w", "\u0345"), r"\w sho...
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