Identifying unicode punctuation characters with Python regex

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> I'm trying to build a regex in python to identify punctuation
> characters in all the languages. Some regex implementations support an
> extended syntax \p{P} that does just that. As far as I know, python re
> doesn't. Any idea of a possible alternative?

You should use character classes. You can generate them automatically
from the unicodedata module: check whether unicodedata.category(c)
starts with "P".

Regards,
Martin