Re: [Python-Dev] unicodedata module is out of date

2013-09-06 Thread Andrew Miller
r but it would be nice if this was available from the standard library. On 6 September 2013 16:38, MRAB wrote: > On 06/09/2013 10:54, Andrew Miller wrote: > >> The unicodedata module only contains data up to Unicode 5.2 (October >> 2009), so attempting to

[Python-Dev] Fwd: unicodedata module is out of date

2013-09-06 Thread Andrew Miller
The unicodedata module only contains data up to Unicode 5.2 (October 2009), so attempting to reference any character from a later version e.g: unicodedata.lookup("TURKISH LIRA SIGN") results in a KeyError. Also, it seems to be limited to properties in the UnicodeData.txt file and does not contai

[Python-Dev] unicodedata module is out of date

2013-09-06 Thread Andrew Miller
The unicodedata module only contains data up to Unicode 5.2 (October 2009), so attempting to reference any character from a later version e.g: unicodedata.lookup("TURKISH LIRA SIGN") results in a KeyError. Also, it seems to be limited to properties in the UnicodeData.txt file and does not contai