Unicode module not found despite installation using Google Colab

Question

I've installed unicode on google colab

!pip install unicode

Requirement already satisfied: unicode in /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages (2.7)

And I've double checked if this has worked

!pip show unicode

Name: unicode
Version: 2.7
Summary: Display unicode character properties
Home-page: http://kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk/~garabik/software/unicode.html
Author: Radovan Garabik
Author-email: [email protected]
License: GNU GPL v3
Location: /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages
Requires: 
Required-by:

But when I try to import it, I get this error

ModuleNotFoundError                       Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-12-15293d0741a3> in <module>()
----> 1 import unicode

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'unicode'

Can someone help? Thanks

Answer 1

unicode is a command line utility, it is meant to be run in the terminal. It is not importable in Python scripts.

You could try copying the unicode script, which is named unicode to unicode.py. This would make it importable, but it looks to me as if it won't really be usable - it has been designed as a script, not a library.