[Manichean]

Originally Posted by ldolse

(?u) should have worked, just doublechecked the docs - was this what you tried?:

(?u)(\w+), (\w+)

I tried that in plain Python, and the unicode flag didn't make any difference.

I can't say that I'm a big fan of the Locale option after thinking about it - based on the Python regex docs that would work, but it would only work for one locale - if you had authors with non-ascii characters from other locales it wouldn't work - a common scenario for translated works.

You're right, I didn't think of that.