Title: Match A Unicode Character
Slug: match_a_unicode_character
Summary: Match A Unicode Character
Date: 2016-05-01 12:00
Category: Regex
Tags: Basics
Authors: Chris Albon

Based on: Regular Expressions Cookbook

Preliminaries



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# Load regex package
import re

Create some text



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# Create a variable containing a text string
text = 'Microsoft™.'

Apply regex



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# Find any unicode character for a trademark
re.findall(r'\u2122', text)









    Out[3]:





['™']