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I am trying to find a Unicode pattern but it always returns an empty list [ ]. I have tried the same pattern in Kwrite and it worked fine.

I have tried \u \\u in place of \w but didn't work for me. Here Unicode string can be any Unicode string.

InputString=r"[[ਅਤੇ\CC_CCD]]_CCP"

Result = re.findall(r'[\[]+[\w]+\\\w+[\]]+[_]\w+',InputString,flags=re.U)

print(Result)
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There seems to be an extra character ੇ between ਤ and \ which cannot be matched by \w+. It's hex value is 0xA47 So, I have added [\u0A47] in the regex.

Try this Regex:

\[+\w+[\u0A47]\\\w+]]\w+

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Explanation:

  • \[+ - matches 1+ occurrences of [
  • \w+ - matches 1+ occurrences of a word character
  • [^\\]* - matches 0+ occurrences of any character which is not \
  • \\ - matches \
  • \w+ - matches 1+ occurrences of a word character
  • ]] - matches ]]
  • \w+ - matches 1+ occurrences of a word character

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The words are from Gurmukhi language. The unicode range is 0A00 - 0A7F. So you can also use the regex:

\[+[\u0A00-\u0A7F]+\\\w+]]\w+

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this works, can explain it why need a '.' after \w. and if we have multiple patterns in a string it returns only first. Link (regex101.com/r/vv2Qzl/4)
@UMR See the full updated answer for the explanation.
@UMR See the 2nd regex I have posted in the answer. It will match all the gurmukhi characters.
Thanks, the Second one worked fine for me. It matched all the patterns from given text.

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