#2834: Change re module semantics, so that str and bytes mixing is forbidden,

and str (unicode) patterns get full unicode matching by default. The re.ASCII
flag is also introduced to ask for ASCII matching instead.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/version.py b/version.py
index f71b2f6c..907f71c3 100644
--- a/version.py
+++ b/version.py
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ class StrictVersion (Version):
     """
 
     version_re = re.compile(r'^(\d+) \. (\d+) (\. (\d+))? ([ab](\d+))?$',
-                            re.VERBOSE)
+                            re.VERBOSE | re.ASCII)
 
 
     def parse (self, vstring):