Python's re module does not support POSIX character classes, for example [:alpha:]. It is, of course, trivial to simulate them using character ranges when the text to be matched uses the ASCII character set. Sadly, my problem is that I need to process Unicode text. The re module has its own character classes that do support Unicode, however they are not sufficient.
I would find it extremely useful if there was information on the Unicode code points that map to each of the POSIX character classes. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
