import re

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txt = "Åland"

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#Find all ASCII matches:

print(re.findall("\w", txt, re.ASCII))

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#Without the flag, the example would return all character:

print(re.findall("\w", txt))

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#Same result using the shorthand re.A flag:

print(re.findall("\w", txt, re.A))

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