[Python-Dev] String module

[Guido van Rossum]

> the SRE engine already supports character classes based on
> ASCII, the current locale (via ctype.h), and the Unicode char-
> set.

How do I ask for a locale letter?  The re module only defines escapes
for "word" and "digit".

> we should probably add more classes -- at least the full list of
> POSIX [:name:] classes, and probably also unicode categories.

+1

> fwiw, I've played with adding "charset" objects to SRE, which
> would allow you to plug in custom [:spam:] sets as well (e.g.
> xml name chars).

+1

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)