All, If we *do* seriously consider adding those characters as ignorable in re.VERBOSE, that's because somebody is using them in text a lot, and it slips into their coding. Given frequent use, we should consider how a lot more whitespace characters can be conveniently searched individually and readably, because whitespace characters are the ultimate confusables. This may be a no-op, given the \N and \u notations, but \u is pretty opaque and \N leads to character-per-line regexes. ;-)
Otherwise I'm with Paul, who writes: > My instinct is not to worry about it unless someone has actually hit > the issue in practice and raised a bug. After the tabs vs. spaces fiasco, I lean steeply to the right for code -- including embedded languages like regexes. *We* say what is allowed there, and *you* can find an editor that does it our way. The point of re.VERBOSE is to allow writing regexes the way we write Python code, formatting to emphasize structure and improve readability. I don't see why we would want to allow more than we already do, given that any fancy whitespace formatting for "literate programming" will be done by the code formatting engine of the document preparation system anyway. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
