Andrew Miller, 06.09.2013 11:54:
The unicodedata module only contains data up to Unicode 5.2 (October 2009), so attempting to reference any character from a later version e.g:
unicodedata.lookup("TURKISH LIRA SIGN")
results in a KeyError.
Also, it seems to be limited to properties in the UnicodeData.txt file and does not contain any data from the other files from the Unicode Character Database (the perl library Unicode::UCD is far more complete).
Are there any plans to update this module to the latest Unicode version (6.2, with 6.3 being released shortly)
It's been updated to 6.2 almost a year ago, so Python 3.3 should have that.
I don't think 6.3 support will be added before Python 3.4, assuming it's final by then. You should open a ticket so that it won't be forgotten before the release.
That being said, the module is (mostly) generated, so you might be able to fix it up yourself if you need it sooner in a local installation.
Stefan