Regex Python french accent

Question

I use this code: b = re.sub('[^A-Za-z]+', ' ', a) . Nevertheless i need to take account of the french accents: àâéèêëïîôùûç . Can you please help me? :)

Thanks.

Answer 1

If you're like to replace all the letters, taking into account unicode, do the following:

text = "àâéèêëïîôùûç"
re.sub('\w+', ' ', text, re.UNICODE)

Please note that the re.UNICODE is not needed in python3, as it does unicode matching by default.

Answer 2

Regex for accented characters has been covered before really well over here .

If you're dealing with French accents (not umlauts etc) then you're code could be updated like this:

b = re.sub('[^A-zÀ-ú]+', ' ', a)

That should amend your previous "all upper and lower case letters" to "all upper and lower case letters including accents"