[Python-Dev] [patch #100889] a smaller unicode name database

[Fredrik Lundh]

> my unicode database compression project has resulted in its first
> patch:
>=20
> =
https://sourceforge.net/patch/index.php?func=3Ddetailpatch&patch_id=3D100=
899&group_id=3D5470

two additional comments:

first, the patch was too large for sourceforge (>512000 bytes), so
I've uploaded it to the secret effbot site instead:

    http://w1.132.telia.com/~u13208596/uninames-patch.txt

second, the uninames module provides two public Python functions:

    getname(code) returns the character name corresponding to
    the given character code, or None if the name is not known.

    getcode(name) returns the character code for the given character
    name.  again, it returns None if the code is not known.

Q: should I raise exceptions instead of returning None?

Q: what other functions would be useful?  getallnames()?  anything
   else?

cheers /F