[Python-Dev] Regular expressions, Unicode etc.

[Georg Brandl]

Nick Maclaren schrieb:
> Further to the above, I found the Unicode sources, have rebuilt
> the files, but it involved some fairly serious hacking to the
> building mechanism and I have had to disable the Unicode 3.2
> support.  And, of course, that means that 4 of the tests fail.
> 
> This area needs addressing, not least because Python should
> clearly be upgraded to Unicode 5.0.0 (which is what I am using)
> at some stage.
> 
> I am not sure how best to report a bug that essentially says
> "The build mechanisms for Unicode have suffered bit-rot, no longer
> work and need redesigning."  I could certainly do that, but it's
> not helpful - people already know that, from the comments :-(

FWIW, there is a patch on the tracker at python.org/sf/1571184 that may be
helpful to you.

Georg


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