Unicode Babel

Unicode Babel is a easy to use python package for generating random unicode code-points/characters.

It's ideal for use in your tests or tools, Allowing you to quickly identify bugs and data processing issues.

• Easy to use iterator for repeated tests
• Unicode Planes 0, 1 and 2
• Python 3.6+
• Free to use and open source

Getting started:

To install:

pip install unicode-babel

This code:

from unicode_babel import tools, filters

genny = tools.CodePointGenerator()

for point in genny.random_codepoints(10, filters.filter_out_if_no_name):
    print(point)

Will output 10 random unicode code-points from the Basic Multilingual Plane, filtered to ensure only valid named code-points are returned.:

ᓆ
ᗡ
ꋛ
販
ۅ
䶣
楨
蟷
䔉
ݥ

As these are valid characters from valid code-points you can use these anywhere that clams to accept text.

If you want to really put the cat among the pigeons try this code:

from unicode_babel import *

genny = tools.CodePointGenerator()

for point in genny.random_codepoints(10, filters.filter_in_if_no_name):
    print(point)

...it will fail badly, as the code-points filtered-in can not be encoded, the codepoints don't map to a 'character'. The error might look something like this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "tryout.py", line 6, in <module>
    print(point)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't encode character '\ud8b4' in position 0: surrogates not allowed

But this nonetheless might be useful in unit testing etc.

Or you can get individual code-points and them use them with other tools, for example Selenium Webdriver:

from unicode_babel import tools, filters
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

browser = webdriver.Chrome()
browser.get("https://www.google.com")

data_genny = tools.CodePointGenerator()
unusual_char = data_genny.get_random_codepoint(filters.filter_out_if_no_name)

search_box = browser.find_element_by_name("q")
search_box.send_keys(unusual_char + Keys.RETURN)

Assuming you have Chromedriver (Webdriver) in your path, that should open Google and search for a random character.

Testing

If you have downloaded the code from GitHub and wish to run the unit tests:

python -m unittest discover -v tests

License:

Copyright © 2023 Peter Houghton

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