[Python-Dev] unicode regex quickie: should a newline be the same thing as a linebreak?

[Moshe Zadka]

On Sat, 13 May 2000, Fredrik Lundh wrote:

> what's the best way to deal with this?  I see three alter-
> natives:
> 
> a) stick to the old definition, and use chr(10) also for
>    unicode strings

If we also supply a \something (is \l taken?) for LINEBREAK, people can
then use [^\l] if they need a Unicode line break. Just a point for a way
to do a thing close to rightness and still not break code.

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