Extracting whole words

Question

I have a large set of real-world text that I need to pull words out of to input into a spell checker. I\'d like to extract as many meaningful words as possible with

Answer 1

Sample code

print re.search(ur'(?u)ривет\b', ur'Привет')
print re.search(ur'(?u)\bривет\b', ur'Привет')

or

s = ur"abcd ААБВ"
import re
rx1 = re.compile(ur"(?u)АБВ")
rx2 = re.compile(ur"(?u)АБВ\b")
rx3 = re.compile(ur"(?u)\bАБВ\b")
print rx1.findall(s)
print rx2.findall(s)
print rx3.findall(s)