Generates a list of Unicode code points sorted by name length

unicode-name-length.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import unicodedata

chars = []

for c in xrange(0,0x10FFFF):
    try:
        name = unicodedata.name(unichr(c))
        chars.append((c,name))
    except:
        pass

chars.sort(key=lambda a: len(a[1]))
print '\n'.join('U+{:06X} {}'.format(c, name) for c, name in chars)