Unicode Regular Expressions

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> I'm writing a program that requires specifically Unicode regular
> expressions http://unicode.org/reports/tr18/ to be loaded in from an
> external file and then interpreted against the data.  if I use Python
> Regular expressions is there a flag I can set to specify that the
> regular expressions that are loaded from the file conform to Unicode
> regular expressions. 

It's not supported in the standard re module. Contributions are welcome.

Regards,
Martin