uniseg 0.7.1

A pure Python library to determine Unicode text segmentations

Introduction

A pure Python module to determine Unicode text segmentations.

You can see the full documentation including the package reference on http://uniseg-python.readthedocs.org.

Features

This package provides:

• Functions to get Unicode Character Database (UCD) properties concerned with text segmentations.
• Functions to determin segmentation boundaries of Unicode strings.
• Classes that help implement Unicode-aware text wrapping on both console (monospace) and graphical (monospace / propotional) font environments.

Supporting segmentations are:

code point

Code point is “any value in the Unicode codespace.” It is the basic unit for processing Unicode strings.

grapheme cluster

Grapheme cluster approximately represents “user-perceived character.” They may be made up of single or multiple Unicode code points. e.g. “G” + acute-accent is a user-perceived character.

word break

Word boundaries are familiar segmentation in many common text operations. e.g. Unit for text highlighting, cursor jumping etc. Note that words are not determinable only by spaces or punctuations in text in some languages. Such languages like Thai or Japanese require dictionaries to determine appropriate word boundaries. Though the package only provides simple word breaking implementation which is based on the scripts and doesn’t use any dictionaires, it also provides ways to customize its default behaviours.

sentensce break

Sentence breaks are also common in text processing but they are more contextual and less formal. The sentence breaking implementation (which is specified in UAX: Unicode Standard Annex) in the package is simple and formal too. But it must be still useful in some usages.

line break

Implementing line breaking algorithm is one of the key features of this package. The feature is important in many general text presentations in both CLI and GUI applications.

Requirements

• Python 2.7 / 3.3 / 3.4

Download

Source / binary distributions (PyPI)

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/uniseg

All sources and build tools etc. (Bitbucket)

https://bitbucket.org/emptypage/uniseg-python

Install

Just type:

% pip install uniseg

or download the archive and:

% python setup.py install

Changes

0.7.1 (2015-05-02)

• CHANGE: wrap.Wrapper.wrap(): returns the count of lines now.
• Separate LICENSE from README.txt for the packaging-related reason in some environments.

0.7.0 (2015-02-27)

• CHANGE: Quited gathering all submodules’s members on the top, uniseg module.
• CHANGE: Reform uniseg.wrap module and sample scripts.
• Maintained uniseg.wrap module, and sample scripts work again.

0.6.4 (2015-02-10)

• Add uniseg-dbpath console command, which just print the path of ucd.sqlite3.
• Include sample scripts under the package’s subdirectory.

0.6.3 (2015-01-25)

• Python 3.4
• Support modern setuptools, pip and wheel.

0.6.2 (2013-06-09)

• Python 3.3

0.6.1 (2013-06-08)

• Unicode 6.2.0

References

UAX #14: Unicode Line Breaking Algorithm (6.2.0)

http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/tr14-30.html

UAX #29 Unicode Text Segmentation (6.2.0)

http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr29/tr29-21.html

Related / Similar Projects

PyICU - Python extension wrapping the ICU C++ API

PyICU is a Python extension wrapping International Components for Unicode library (ICU). It also provides text segmentation supports and they just perform richer and faster than those of ours. PyICU is an extension library so it requires ICU dynamic library (binary files) and compiler to build the extention. Our package is written in pure Python; it runs slower but is more portable.

pytextseg - Python module for text segmentation

pytextseg package forcuses very similar goal to ours; it provides Unicode-aware text wrapping features. They designed and uses their original string class (not built-in unicode / str classes) for the purpose. We use strings as just ordinary built-in unicode / str objects for text processing in our modules.