[Python-Dev] Python and the Unicode Character Database (original) (raw)

Alexander Belopolsky alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com
Tue Dec 7 04:03:16 CET 2010


On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 5:58 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

I actually wonder if Python's re module can claim to provide even Basic Unicode Support. Do you really wonder? Most definitely it does not.

Were you more optimistic four years ago?

http://bugs.python.org/issue1528154#msg54864

I was hoping that regex syntax would be useful in explaining/documenting Python text processing routines (including string to number conversions) without a heavy dose of Unicode terminology.



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