2 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Cosimo Lupo
3442da1529 [unicodedata] use bisect.bisect_right function
CPython comes with a fast C implementation of bisect module.
This gives 4 to 5 times speed-ups over my pure-python version.
2017-11-20 13:30:17 +01:00
Cosimo Lupo
52d6131525 [unicodedata] add new module and 'script' function
The new `fontTools.unicodedata` module re-exports all the public
functions from the built-in `unicodedata` module, and also adds
additional functions.

The `script` function takes a unicode character and returns the
script name as defined in the UCD "Script.txt" data file.

It's implemented as a simple binary search, plus a memoizing
decorator that caches the results to avoid search the same
character more than once.

The unicodedata2 backport is imported if present, otherwise
the unicodedata built-in is used.
2017-11-17 19:17:17 +00:00