[Python-Dev] EuroPython Language Summit report

[Bill Janssen]

Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:

> The new regex library has some great improvements:
> 
>     http://bugs.python.org/issue2636
> 
> It also has users and committed maintainers, so I hope we can bring it
> into 3.3. It wasn't easy to tell from skimming the change notes that
> Unicode character classes are amongst the new features. Is that the
> case?

According to http://effbot.org/zone/unicode-objects.htm (from 2004), the
existing re module already supports Unicode character classes, so the
regex module will as well.  But the support has been updated, according
to the change notes.

Bill