Re: unicodedata implementation - categories

2007-10-14 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> 1) Why doesn't the category method raise an Exception, like the name method > does? As Chris explains, the result category means "Other, Not Assigned". Python returns this category because it's the truth: for those characters, the value of the "category" property really *is* Cn; it means that th

Re: unicodedata implementation - categories

2007-10-13 Thread chris . monsanto
me the opportunity to fill some > of those in. References to Knuth or some on-line reading would be much > appreciated, to help me understand the CPython part. > > Cheers, > > James > -- > View this message in > context:http://www.nabble.com/unicodedata-implementation---categ

unicodedata implementation - categories

2007-10-13 Thread James Abley
ed when it comes to data structures and algorithms and I would welcome the opportunity to fill some of those in. References to Knuth or some on-line reading would be much appreciated, to help me understand the CPython part. Cheers, James -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/unicodedata-