pyglyph -- identify unicode glyphs

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pyglyph -- identify unicode glyphs

* About

pyglyph.py can be used to decode unicode strings and identify the glyphs.
This can be useful if you want to know what exact glyph was used somewhere,
simply copy it and use it as input for pyglyph.

Pyglyph works best with python2.7 (because of argparse), but is compatible 
with earlier versions.

* Usage

usage: pyglyph.py [-h] TEXT

Decode a Unicode glyph.

positional arguments:
  TEXT        unicode glyphs to analyze

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit

pyglyph.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# encoding: utf-8
"""
pyglyph.py -- Get information on (Unicode) glyphs
"""

##  @file pyglyph.py
# @author Tim van Werkhoven (t.i.m.vanwerkhoven@xs4all.nl)
# 
# Created by Tim van Werkhoven.
# Copyright (c) 2011 Tim van Werkhoven (t.i.m.vanwerkhoven@xs4all.nl)
# 
# This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike
# license versions 3.0 or higher, see
# http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

# Libraries
import sys
try:
	import argparse
except ImportError:
	print "Please run in Python2.7 for improved usability"
except:
    print "Unexpected error:", sys.exc_info()[0]
    raise
import unicodedata

### Main routine
def main(*argv):
	# Helper string for this function
	glyph=''
	try:
		parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(\
			description='Decode a Unicode glyph.')
	
		# Add positional argument (filepath)
		parser.add_argument('glyph', action='store', nargs='+', 
			metavar='TEXT', type=str, help='unicode glyphs to analyze')
	
		args = parser.parse_args()
		inputlist = args.glyph
		
	except NameError:
		if (len(argv) > 1):
			inputlist = argv[1:]
		pass
	except:
		raise
	
	glyphs = " ".join(inputlist)
	glyphlist = glyphs.decode(sys.getfilesystemencoding())
	### DO STUFF HERE
	for glyph in glyphlist:
		if (len(glyph)):
			print u"Glyph info: %s (Unicode %d, %s)" % (glyph, ord(glyph), unicodedata.name(glyph).capitalize())

# Check if we are run from commandline
if __name__ == '__main__':
	sys.exit(main(*sys.argv))