[Python-Dev] Python and the Unicode Character Database

[Alexander Belopolsky]

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.