What is regex for currency symbol?

Question

In java I can use the regex : \\p{Sc} for detecting currency symbol in text. What is the equivalent in Python?

Answer 1

If you want to stick with re, supply the characters from Sc manually:

u"[$¢£¤¥֏؋৲৳৻૱௹฿៛\u20a0-\u20bd\ua838\ufdfc\ufe69\uff04\uffe0\uffe1\uffe5\uffe6]"

will do.