FWIW, python regex support checking for Unicode properties via the \p{SOME NAME} syntax, but as people said there's a lot more weird edge cases. Btw looks like

FWIW, python regex support checking for Unicode properties via the \p{SOME NAME} syntax, but as people said there's a lot more weird edge cases. Btw looks like the code may also have a couple lurking bugs (parsing floats vs decimals, implicit locale number formatting ). I feel all "import data from multiple sources" I've seen in my life grew through repeated application of edge case handling.