Unicode classes of characters in Pythons' re's like in Perl?

[Roman Suzi]

Hello!

Reading XML Schema docs I found that there are some useful extensions
to regular expressions like an ability to specify class of characters.
For example,

[\p{Lu}]

will match any uppercase letters.

Is the feature planned in Python re too?

Sincerely yours, Roman A.Suzi
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