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unicodedata

module

Access to the Unicode Character Database: character names and categories, numeric values, string normalization.

Syntax

import unicodedata

Use unicodedata when strings that look the same compare as different: "é" can be one character or a letter plus a separate accent, and normalize("NFC", s) brings them to one form. The module also tells you what a character is — name() and category() — and finds a character by name with lookup(). It is not needed for plain case conversion: for caseless comparison there is str.casefold().

Examples

import unicodedata
print(unicodedata.name("é"))  # → LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE
s = "e\u0301"
print(len(s), len(unicodedata.normalize("NFC", s)))  # → 2 1
print(unicodedata.category("7"))  # → Nd

See also

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