On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 11:06 PM, Dave Angel <da...@davea.name> wrote:
> One tool that can help is the name function in module unicodedata
>
> >>> import unicodedata
> >>> unicodedata.name(u'\xb0')
> 'DEGREE SIGN'
>
> If you try that on the values near sys.maxunicode you get an exception:
> ValueError: no such name
There's no name since the code point isn't assigned, but the category
is defined:
>>> unicodedata.category(u'\U0010FFFD')
'Co'
>>> unicodedata.category(u'\U0010FFFE')
'Cn'
>>> unicodedata.category(u'\U0010FFFF')
'Cn'
'Co' is the private use category, and 'Cn' is for codes that aren't assigned.
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