[FIXED] Canot slice/index unicode strings with underscores

Issue

I have this Unicode string:

my_string = "₁ᴀa̲a̲̲"

How can index and slice it to make other Unicode strings?

If I run

print([x for x in my_string])
['₁', 'ᴀ', 'a', '̲', 'a', '̲', '̲']

when I expected

['₁', 'ᴀ', 'a̲', '̲a̲̲']

this prints

my_string[3]
'̲'

when I expected

a̲̲

I tried t define

my_string = u"₁ᴀa̲a̲̲"

but the u is automatically deleted by vscode

I need my_string as buffer to compose other strings according to his human-readable index.

Solution

You could use the \X regex and findall from the regex module:

import regex

out = regex.findall(r'\X', my_string)

Output:

['₁', 'ᴀ', 'a̲', 'a̲̲']

Answered By - mozway