`re` should support `\p{...}` character properties

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
backend

Research direction

Start by reproducing the issue with re.compile('\p{script=Han}') and read the Unicode Technical Report 18 link in the description. Done means Python's re supports this property syntax and the expression behaves as expected for Han-script characters; several linked PRs indicate that related work has already moved elsewhere.

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Description

stdlib topic-regex type-feature

Feature or enhancement

Reproduced steps

re.compile('\p{script=Han}') #

actual:
will throw error
expect:
pass

Info:

changed log
8/3 add more info . Final thx @JelleZijlstra give an helpful link

Linked PRs
  • gh-151969
  • gh-152245
  • gh-153023
  • gh-156490
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