Is there a library for Python that gives the script name for a given unicode character or string?

Question

Is there a library that tells what script a particular unicode character belongs to?

For example for the input "u'ሕ'" it should return Ethiopic or similar.

Answer 1

Maybe the data in the unicodedata module is what you are looking for:

print unicodedata.name(u"ሕ")

prints

ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE HHE

The printed name can be used to look up the corresponding character:

unicodedata.lookup("ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE HHE")