> 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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list