python 27 re is not able to find characters öÖäÄåÅ

[gintare]

Os: Windows7, 64bit
Python27

text="""AU  - Huang, Zhipeng
AU  - Geyer, Nadine
AU  - Werner, Peter
AU  - de Boor, Johannes
AU  - Gösele, Ulrich
TI  - Metal-Assisted Chemical Etching of Silicon: A Review"""

auths=re.findall('AU  \- [öÖäÄåÅa-zA-Z.,\s]+', text)
print(auths)

I am getting the result: ['AU - Huang, Zhipeng', 'AU - Geyer, Nadine', 'AU - Werner, Peter', 'AU - de
Boor, Johannes', 'AU - G']
Python is not able to find " Gösele"

[bvdet]

I am not having that issue in Python 2.7.2. Try this:

# coding=utf-8
import re

text="""AU  - Huang, Zhipeng
AU  - Geyer, Nadine
AU  - Werner, Peter
AU  - de Boor, Johannes
AU  - Gösele, Ulrich
TI  - Metal-Assisted Chemical Etching of Silicon: A Review"""

auths=re.findall('AU  \- [öÖäÄåÅa-zA-Z, ]+', text)
for item in auths:
    print item

The results:

>>> AU  - Huang, Zhipeng
AU  - Geyer, Nadine
AU  - Werner, Peter
AU  - de Boor, Johannes
AU  - Gösele, Ulrich
>>> 
>>> print auths
['AU  - Huang, Zhipeng', 'AU  - Geyer, Nadine', 'AU  - Werner, Peter', 'AU  - de Boor, Johannes', 'AU  - G\xc3\xb6sele, Ulrich']
>>>

[gintare]

I am sorry for misinformation. Actually the text is not a string, but text from the file. The error appears if text is from file:

fcit=codecs.open('C:/Users/Gintare/Downloads/Citations.txt','r',encoding='utf-8')
text=fcit.readlines()

Thanks for the notice, i am just copying file context to python script and now everything is working. But if you know how to read correctly the file, could you please write.

[bvdet]

You are calling readlines() which reads in a list of the lines. You should use read() or iterate on the list returned by readlines(). If the file is saved with utf-8 encoding, this should work:

# coding=utf-8
import re
import codecs

fcit=codecs.open("data.txt", encoding="utf-8")
text=fcit.read()
auths=re.findall(codecs.decode('AU  \- [öÖäÄåÅa-zA-Z, ]+', "utf-8"), text)

for item in auths:
    print item

[gintare]

Thanks, it works with file.read()