> My second one is about Unicode. I really, but REALLY regard it as > a serious defect that there is no escape for printing characters. > Any code that checks arbitrary text is likely to need them - yes, > I know why Perl and hence PCRE doesn't have that, but let's skip > that. That is easy to add, though choosing a letter is tricky. > Currently \c and \C, for 'character' (I would prefer 'text' or > 'printable', but \t is obviously insane and \P is asking for > incompatibility with Perl and Java).
Before discussing the escape, I'd like to see a specification of it first - what characters precisely would classify as "printing"? > But attempting to rebuild the Unicode database hasn't worked. > Tools/unicode is, er, a trifle incomplete and out of date. The > only file I need to change is Objects/unicodetype_db.h, but the > init attempts to run Tools/unicode/makeunicodedata.py have not > been successful. > > I may be able to reverse engineer the mechanism enough to get > the files off the Unicode site and run it, but I don't want to > spend forever on it. Any clues? I see that you managed to do something here, so I'm not sure what kind of help you still need. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
