Counts unicode range (total printable characters) in mixed text file; currently set to Hebrew

ccount.py

#!/usr/bin/python
# coding: utf-8
import re
import codecs
import sys

## chmod 0755 to make executable
## run with `./name.py input_file`
## source: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/372270/99759

find_hebrew = re.compile(ur'[\u0590-\u05ff]+')  # python 2
# find_hebrew = re.compile(r'[\u0590-\u05ff]+')   # python 3

text_file = sys.argv[1]

count = 0
with codecs.open(text_file, 'rU', encoding='utf-8') as f:
    for line in f.readlines():
        for n in find_hebrew.findall(line):
            count += len(n)
print(count)

HT: @stephenrauch

https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/372270/99759