7.3. Unicode

• re.UNICODE

• re.ASCII

• ASCII for letters in latin alphabet

• UNICODE includes diacritics and accent characters (ąśćłóźć, etc.)

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters

• https://symbl.cc/en/unicode-table/

>>> import string
>>>
>>>
>>> string.ascii_lowercase
'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
>>>
>>> string.ascii_uppercase
'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'
>>>
>>> string.ascii_letters
'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'

>>> import unicodedata
>>>
>>>
>>> unicodedata.name('a')
'LATIN SMALL LETTER A'
>>>
>>> unicodedata.name('ą')
'LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH OGONEK'
>>>
>>> unicodedata.name('ś')
'LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH ACUTE'
>>>
>>> unicodedata.name('ł')
'LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH STROKE'
>>>
>>> unicodedata.name('ż')
'LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH DOT ABOVE'
>>>

>>> print('\U0001F680')
🚀

>>> import unicodedata
>>>
>>>
>>> a = '\U0001F9D1'  # 🧑
>>> b = '\U0000200D'  # ''
>>> c = '\U0001F680'  # 🚀
>>>
>>> astronaut = a + b + c
>>> print(astronaut)
🧑‍🚀
>>>
>>> unicodedata.name(a)
'ADULT'
>>>
>>> unicodedata.name(b)
'ZERO WIDTH JOINER'
>>>
>>> unicodedata.name(c)
'ROCKET'
>>>
>>> unicodedata.name(astronaut)
Traceback (most recent call last):
TypeError: name() argument 1 must be a unicode character, not str