re.UNICODE and re.LOCALE

[Jane Austine]

Is turning both re.UNICODE _and_ re.LOCALE flags on valid in Python
2.3? Doesn't it conflict each other? What is the semantics?

Playing with \w and \b with both the flags on, it seemed re.UNICODE is
ignored.

 

[Martin v. =?iso-8859-15?q?L=F6wis?=]

Is turning both re.UNICODE _and_ re.LOCALE flags on valid in Python
2.3? Doesn't it conflict each other? What is the semantics?

Playing with \w and \b with both the flags on, it seemed re.UNICODE is
ignored.

Right. The flags do conflict, and re.LOCALE is checked first,
resulting in re.UNICODE being ignored.

Regards,
Martin