Re: POSIX regex
| From: | Andrei Zmievski | Date: | Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:39:20 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: POSIX regex | ||
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Python did go down that road, but take a look at Python 3000 effort and you will see that what they are trying to do is exactly what we have: native Unicode strings, without prefixes.
-Andrei
On Jul 18, 2007, at 11:51 AM, Andi Gutmans wrote:
Functions would work properly with Unicode, but you would explicitly create Unicode strings e.g. u"foobar". This is not uncommon practice and many other languages actually go down this route incl. Python and various versions of C++ frameworks.