New submission from flying sheep: See also #6331.
The repo https://github.com/nagisa/unicodeblocks contains pretty much the functionality i’d like to see: a way to get access to information about all blocks, and a way to get the block name a char is in. I propose to include something very similar to those two APIs in unicodedata: unicodedata.Block: class with start, end, and name property. its __contains__ should work for single-char-strings (which tests if that char is in the block) and for ints (which tests if the codepoint is in the block) maybe make it iterable over its chars? unicodedata.blocks: OrderedDict of str (block name) → Block object mappings ordered by Block.start. then blocks.keys() would yield the names in order, and blocks.values() the block objects in order. unicodedata.block_of(chr, name_only=False): returns the Block object for which “chr in block” is True, or its name. --- alternative: make the Block class an unfancy namedtuple without __contains__ method. --- Together with #18234, fixing this bug will complete UnicodeData support in python, i guess. ---------- messages: 229101 nosy: flying sheep priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Add block info to unicodedata type: enhancement versions: Python 3.5 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue22612> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
