Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> writes: > Ben Finney wrote: > > "M.-A. Lemburg" <m...@egenix.com> writes: > > >> No, you tell them: "If you want Unicode 6 semantics, use regex, if > >> you're fine with Unicode 2.0/3.0 semantics, use re". > > > > What do we say, then, to those who are unaware of the different > > semantics between those versions of Unicode, and want regular expression > > to “just work” in Python? > > > > To which document can we direct them to understand what semantics they > > want? > > Presumably, like all modules, both the re and the regex module will > have their own individual pages in the library reference.
My question is directed more to M-A Lemburg's passage above, and its implicit assumption that the user understand the changes between “Unicode 2.0/3.0 semantics” and “Unicode 6 semantics”, and how their own needs relate to those semantics. For programmers who know they want to follow Unicode conventions in Python, but don't know the distinction M-A Lemburg is drawing, to which document does he recommend we direct them? “The Unicode specification document in its various versions” isn't a feasible answer. -- \ “Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.” —Pablo | `\ Picasso | _o__) | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ 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
