ref: c8dd01d5f673d62555ac773a61798901784445de
dir: /sys/src/cmd/python/Demo/scripts/find-uname.py/
#!/usr/bin/env python """ For each argument on the command line, look for it in the set of all Unicode names. Arguments are treated as case-insensitive regular expressions, e.g.: % find-uname 'small letter a$' 'horizontal line' *** small letter a$ matches *** LATIN SMALL LETTER A (97) COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER A (867) CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER A (1072) PARENTHESIZED LATIN SMALL LETTER A (9372) CIRCLED LATIN SMALL LETTER A (9424) FULLWIDTH LATIN SMALL LETTER A (65345) *** horizontal line matches *** HORIZONTAL LINE EXTENSION (9135) """ import unicodedata import sys import re def main(args): unicode_names= [] for ix in range(sys.maxunicode+1): try: unicode_names.append( (ix, unicodedata.name(unichr(ix))) ) except ValueError: # no name for the character pass for arg in args: pat = re.compile(arg, re.I) matches = [(x,y) for (x,y) in unicode_names if pat.search(y) is not None] if matches: print "***", arg, "matches", "***" for (x,y) in matches: print "%s (%d)" % (y,x) if __name__ == "__main__": main(sys.argv[1:])