> On 16 Aug 2022, at 21:24, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
>
> Other regex implementations have escape sequences for horizontal whitespace
> (`\h` and `\H`) and vertical whitespace (`\v` and `\V`).
>
> The regex module already supports `\h`, but I can't use `\v` because it
> represents `\0x0b', as it does in the re module.
You seem to be mixing the use \ as the escape for strings and the \ that re
uses.
Is it the behaviour that '\<unknown>' becomes '\\<unknown>' that means this is
a breaking change?
Won't this work?
```
re.compile('\v:\\v')
# which is the same as
re.compile(r'\x0b:\v')
```
Barry
> Now that someone has asked for it, I'm trying to find a nice way of adding
> it, and I'm currently thinking that maybe I could use `\y` and `\Y` instead
> as they look a little like `\v` and `\V`, and, also, vertical whitespace is
> sort-of in the y-direction.
>
> As far as I can tell, only ProgressSQL uses them, and, even then, it's for
> what everyone else writes as `\b` and `\B`.
>
> I want the regex module to remain compatible with the re module, in case they
> get added there sometime in the future.
>
> Opinions?
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