regex '\w' is ''

[Macr0phag3]

In [8]: import exrex

In [9]: exrex.getone('\w+')
Out[9]: ''

[waldyrious]

I'm facing the same issue.

[gaborod16]

Same here.
There are other variations that also don't work:

"\D", "\W" and "\S".

However, I do agree that having "\w" working is much more important.

[CrafterKolyan]

\w is working if you install exrex from master
(\W, \D and \S are still not working)

[waldyrious]

Thanks for the heads-up, @CrafterKolyan! For reference, the PR that implemented this was #42. It was merged on 7 October 2019, and there hasn't been a release since then.

[olfMombach]

Confirming that this feature (and most probably many other new features) are still not present on the (PyPI) release