unicategories

unicategories

Unicode category database, generated and cached on setup.

This module exposes a category dictionary containing RangeGroup instances, containing all unicode category character ranges detected on your system.

Example

from unicategories import categories

upperchars = categories['Lu'].characters()  # iterator
print('Unicode uppercase caracters are "%s"' % ''.join(upperchars))
# Unicode uppercase caracters are "ABCDEF..."

RangeGroup

Immutable iterable (based on tuple, with some useful methods) of (start, end) tuples being, like python's range, open at the end.

This method have been chosen for memory efficiency, storing individually all characters on memory would take a lot of memory.

RangeGroup class provides the following methods:

range_group.characters()

type: () -> typing.Iterator[str]

Get iterator with all characters on this range group.

:returns: iterator of characters (str of size 1)

range_group.codes()

type: () -> typing.Iterator[int]

Get iterator for all unicode code points contained in this range group.

:returns: iterator of character indexes (int)

range_group.has(character)

type: (typing.Union[str, int]) -> bool

Get if character (or character code point) is part of this range group.

:param character: character or unicode code point to look for
:returns: True if character is contained by any range, False otherwise

Unicode categories

Taken from wikipedia.

Value	Category Major, minor	Basic type	Character assigned	Fixed	Remarks
Lu	Letter, uppercase	Graphic	Character
Ll	Letter, lowercase	Graphic	Character
Lt	Letter, titlecase	Graphic	Character		Ligatures containing uppercase followed by lowercase letters (e.g., Dž , Lj , Nj , and Dz )
Lm	Letter, modifier	Graphic	Character
Lo	Letter, other	Graphic	Character
Mn	Mark, nonspacing	Graphic	Character
Mc	Mark, spacing combining	Graphic	Character
Me	Mark, enclosing	Graphic	Character
Nd	Number, decimal digit	Graphic	Character		All these, and only these, have Numeric Type = De
Nl	Number, letter	Graphic	Character		Numerals composed of letters or letterlike symbols (e.g., Roman numerals )
No	Number, other	Graphic	Character		E.g., vulgar fractions , superscript and subscript digits
Pc	Punctuation, connector	Graphic	Character		Includes "_" underscore
Pd	Punctuation, dash	Graphic	Character		Includes several hyphen characters
Ps	Punctuation, open	Graphic	Character		Opening bracket characters
Pe	Punctuation, close	Graphic	Character		Closing bracket characters
Pi	Punctuation, initial quote	Graphic	Character		Opening quotation mark . Does not include the ASCII "neutral" quotation mark. May behave like Ps or Pe depending on usage
Pf	Punctuation, final quote	Graphic	Character		Closing quotation mark. May behave like Ps or Pe depending on usage
Po	Punctuation, other	Graphic	Character
Sm	Symbol, math	Graphic	Character
Sc	Symbol, currency	Graphic	Character
Sk	Symbol, modifier	Graphic	Character
So	Symbol, other	Graphic	Character
Zs	Separator, space	Graphic	Character		Includes the space, but not TAB , CR , or LF , which are Cc
Zl	Separator, line	Format	Character		Only U+2028 LINE SEPARATOR (LSEP)
Zp	Separator, paragraph	Format	Character		Only U+2029 PARAGRAPH SEPARATOR (PSEP)
Cc	Other, control	Control	Character	Fixed 65	No name , <control>
Cf	Other, format	Format	Character		Includes the soft hyphen , control characters to support bi-directional text , and language tag characters
Cs	Other, surrogate	Surrogate	Not (but abstract)	Fixed 2,048	No name , <surrogate>
Co	Other, private use	Private-use	Not (but abstract)	Fixed 137,468 total: 6,400 in BMP , 131,068 in Planes 15–16	No name , <private-use>
Cn	Other, not assigned	Noncharacter	Not	Fixed 66	No name , <noncharacter>
Cn	Other, not assigned	Reserved	Not	Not fixed	No name , <reserved>

In addition to that, unicategories provide general categories L, M, N, P, S, Z and C.