The unicharclass module#
This helper module caches some information about unicode data.
To update the information, simply run the file directly with python, it overwrites itself.
Available attributes:
categoriesa dictionary mapping unicode Category names to a character class string, usable in a regular expression. Special characters are already escaped. This is useful because the default Python
remodule does not yet provide a way to match unicode character classes by category, etc.
Usage for example:
from parce.unicharclass import categories
# this pattern matches a word consisting of upper- and lowercase letters,
# starting with an uppercase letter
pattern = '[' + categories['Lu'] + '][' + categories['Lu'] + categories['Ll'] + ']*'