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Author ezio.melotti
Recipients ezio.melotti, gvanrossum, lemburg, loewis, mrabarnett, tchrist, terry.reedy
Date 2011-09-30.08:59:08
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Message-id <1317373151.27.0.18276033418.issue12753@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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The attached patch changes Tools/unicode/makeunicodedata.py to create a list of names and codepoints taken from http://www.unicode.org/Public/6.0.0/ucd/NameAliases.txt and adds it to Modules/unicodename_db.h.
During the lookup the _getcode function at Modules/unicodedata.c:1055 loops over the 11 aliases and checks if any of those match.
The patch also includes tests for both unicodedata.lookup and \N{}.

I'm not sure this is the best way to implement this, and someone will probably want to review and tweak both the approach and the C code, but it works fine:
>>> "\N{LATIN CAPITAL LETTER GHA}"
'Ƣ'
>>> import unicodedata
>>> unicodedata.lookup("LATIN CAPITAL LETTER GHA")
'Ƣ'
>>> "\N{LATIN CAPITAL LETTER OI}"
'Ƣ'
>>> unicodedata.lookup("LATIN CAPITAL LETTER OI")
'Ƣ'

The patch doesn't include changes for NamedSequences.txt.
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Date User Action Args
2011-09-30 08:59:11ezio.melottisetrecipients: + ezio.melotti, lemburg, gvanrossum, loewis, terry.reedy, mrabarnett, tchrist
2011-09-30 08:59:11ezio.melottisetmessageid: <1317373151.27.0.18276033418.issue12753@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2011-09-30 08:59:10ezio.melottilinkissue12753 messages
2011-09-30 08:59:10ezio.melotticreate