Thanks Kent, for breaking the bad news. I'm not angry, just terribly, terribly disappointed. :)
"From http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr18/ I see that \p{L} is intended to select Unicode letters, and it is part of a large number of selectors based on Unicode character properties." Yeah, that's the main cite, and yeah, a large, large number. The only sane way to use regexes with Unicode. Also see Friedl's 'Mastering Regular Expressions' Chapter 3: or actually, if you are a Python only person, don't: it will make you weep. "Python doesn't support this syntax. It has limited support for Unicode character properties [...]". Umm Earth to Python-guys, you *have heard* of Unicode, right? Call me crazy, but in this day and age, I assume a scripting language with regex support will implement standard Unicode conventions, unless there is a compelling reason not to. Very odd. Back to Perl. Right now. Just kidding. Not. Sheesh. This is a big flaw in Python, IMHO. I never saw it coming. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
