Re: Regular expressions and Unicode

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JeffreyHowever, when I apply it to this Unicode string, I get only the
Jeffreyfirst 3 letters of the surname:

Jeffreyname = 'Anton\xc3\xadn Dvo\xc5\x99\xc3 \xa1k'

Maybe

name = unicode('Anton\ xc3\xadn Dvo\xc5\x99\xc3 \xa1k', "utf-8")

? Yup, that works:

>>name = unicode('Anton\ xc3\xadn Dvo\xc5\x99\xc3 \xa1k', "utf-8")
>>name

u'Anton\xedn Dvo\u0159\xe1k'

>>surname = r'(?u).+ (\w+)'
>>import re
>>surname_re = re.compile(surn ame)
>>m = surname_re.sear ch(name)
>>m.groups()

(u'Dvo\u0159\xe 1k',)