A Python dictionary mapping the Unicode codes of the greek alphabet to their names

greek_alphabet.py

greek_alphabet = {
    u'\u0391': 'Alpha',
    u'\u0392': 'Beta',
    u'\u0393': 'Gamma',
    u'\u0394': 'Delta',
    u'\u0395': 'Epsilon',
    u'\u0396': 'Zeta',
    u'\u0397': 'Eta',
    u'\u0398': 'Theta',
    u'\u0399': 'Iota',
    u'\u039A': 'Kappa',
    u'\u039B': 'Lamda',
    u'\u039C': 'Mu',
    u'\u039D': 'Nu',
    u'\u039E': 'Xi',
    u'\u039F': 'Omicron',
    u'\u03A0': 'Pi',
    u'\u03A1': 'Rho',
    u'\u03A3': 'Sigma',
    u'\u03A4': 'Tau',
    u'\u03A5': 'Upsilon',
    u'\u03A6': 'Phi',
    u'\u03A7': 'Chi',
    u'\u03A8': 'Psi',
    u'\u03A9': 'Omega',
    u'\u03B1': 'alpha',
    u'\u03B2': 'beta',
    u'\u03B3': 'gamma',
    u'\u03B4': 'delta',
    u'\u03B5': 'epsilon',
    u'\u03B6': 'zeta',
    u'\u03B7': 'eta',
    u'\u03B8': 'theta',
    u'\u03B9': 'iota',
    u'\u03BA': 'kappa',
    u'\u03BB': 'lamda',
    u'\u03BC': 'mu',
    u'\u03BD': 'nu',
    u'\u03BE': 'xi',
    u'\u03BF': 'omicron',
    u'\u03C0': 'pi',
    u'\u03C1': 'rho',
    u'\u03C3': 'sigma',
    u'\u03C4': 'tau',
    u'\u03C5': 'upsilon',
    u'\u03C6': 'phi',
    u'\u03C7': 'chi',
    u'\u03C8': 'psi',
    u'\u03C9': 'omega',
}

Great post, very helpful, thank you!

Nice gist, though if you ever want more than just the greek alphabet or more than just the python way of including codepoints, I've created a repo named 'Azure Alphant' which should be helpful. I can definitely appreciate what you were doing with this, though.

this is super! I feel like the opposite of this would be more useful (at least for me)! (e.g., {'Alpha': u'\u0391',... )

@fishwithlaser you can easily invert the dictionary like so:

greek_alphabet_inv = {v: k for k, v in greek_alphabet.items()}

Note that this only works because there is a 1:1 relation between keys and values. If there were multiple keys with the same value, you'd lose data.

Awesome! Thank you! I broke it into 2 variables for upper and lower cases.

Thanks! A big saver!