Source Code for Module tipy.char

 1  #!/usr/bin/env python3 
 2  # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- 
 3   
 4  """Some variables and functions to help handling characters categories.""" 
 5   
 6   
 7  from unicodedata import category 
 8   
 9   
10  blankspaces = ' \f\n\c\r\t\v…' 
11  """@var: A string containing every blankspaces characters.""" 
12   
13  separators = '`~!@#$%^&*()_-+=\\|]}[{\";:/?.>,<†„“।॥ו–´’‘‚י0123456789ः' 
14  """@var: A string containing every separators characters.""" 
15   
16   
17 -def first_word_char(string): 
18      """Return the index of the first word character in a string. 
19   
20      @return: 
21          The index of the first word character in the string 'string' or -1 if 
22          the string contains no word character. 
23      @rtype: int 
24      """ 
25      for i, ch in enumerate(string): 
26          if is_word_char(ch): 
27              return i 
28      return -1 
29   
30   
31 -def last_word_char(string): 
32      """Return the index of the last word character in a string. 
33   
34      @return: 
35          The index of the last word character in the string 'string' or -1 if 
36          the string contains no word character. 
37      @rtype: int 
38      """ 
39      result = first_word_char(string[::-1]) 
40      if result == -1: 
41          return -1 
42      return len(string) - result - 1 
43   
44   
45 -def is_word_char(char): 
46      """Check if a character is a word character. 
47   
48      @return: 
49          True or False weither the character 'char' is a word character, i.e. a 
50          printable non-ponctuation character. 
51      @rtype: bool 
52      """ 
53      if category(char)[0] == "L": 
54          return True 
55      return False 
56