character type check for japanese text

char_typecheck.py

#encoding: utf-8
import re
import argparse
import os

parser =argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument('input_txt', help = 'the string input')
args = parser.parse_args()



def chartype(text):
    num = re.compile('^[0-9]$')
    alphabet = re.compile('^[A-Za-z]$')
    Hira = re.compile(u'^[\u3040-\u309F]$')
    Kata = re.compile(u'^[\u30A0-\u30FF]$')
    Kanji = re.compile(u'^[\u4E00-\u9FFF]$')
    text = text.decode('utf-8')
    charlist = []
    for char in text:
        if num.match(char)!= None:
            chart = [char, 'Number']
        elif alphabet.match(char)!= None:
            chart = [char, 'Aphabet']
        elif Hira.match(char)!= None:
            chart = [char, 'Hiragana']
        elif Kata.match(char)!= None:
            chart = [char, 'Katakana']
        elif Kanji.match(char)!= None:
            chart = [char, 'Kanji']
        else:
            chart = [char, 'other character']
        charlist.append(chart)
    print charlist
    return charlist