Support Unicode line boundaries in regular expression

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
backend

Research direction

Begin with the Regular Expressions component and the extension-modules context described in the issue, then review the existing Unicode and line-boundary behavior. Determine the intended boundary semantics before changing anything, and add coverage showing that Unicode line boundaries are supported in regular expressions.

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Description

extension-modules topic-regex type-feature
BPO 22491
Nosy @pitrou, @ezio-melotti, @serhiy-storchaka, @ZackerySpytz, @LewisGaul

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GitHub fields:

assignee = None
closed_at = None
created_at = <Date 2014-09-25.06:56:27.004>
labels = ['extension-modules', 'expert-regex', 'type-feature']
title = 'Support Unicode line boundaries in regular expression'
updated_at = <Date 2019-10-27.15:32:36.887>
user = 'https://github.com/serhiy-storchaka'

bugs.python.org fields:

activity = <Date 2019-10-27.15:32:36.887>
actor = 'LewisGaul'
assignee = 'none'
closed = False
closed_date = None
closer = None
components = ['Extension Modules', 'Regular Expressions']
creation = <Date 2014-09-25.06:56:27.004>
creator = 'serhiy.storchaka'
dependencies = []
files = []
hgrepos = []
issue_num = 22491
keywords = []
message_count = 4.0
messages = ['227508', '227523', '348310', '355473']
nosy_count = 6.0
nosy_names = ['pitrou', 'ezio.melotti', 'mrabarnett', 'serhiy.storchaka', 'ZackerySpytz', 'LewisGaul']
pr_nums = []
priority = 'normal'
resolution = None
stage = 'needs patch'
status = 'open'
superseder = None
type = 'enhancement'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue22491'
versions = ['Python 3.5']

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