Script for finding words of any size that do NOT contain vowels with acute diacritic marks?

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Le mercredi 17 octobre 2012 17:00:46 UTC+2, Dave Angel a écrit :
> On 10/17/2012 10:31 AM, nwaits wrote:
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> > I'm very impressed with python's wordlist script for plain text.  Is there a script for finding words that do NOT have certain diacritic marks, like acute or grave accents (utf-8), over the vowels?  
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> > Thank you.
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> if you can construct a list of "illegal" characters, then you can simply
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> check each character of the word against the list, and if it succeeds
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> for all of the characters, it's a winner.
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> If that's not fast enough, you can build a translation table from the
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> list of illegal characters, and use translate on each word.  Then it
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> becomes a question of checking if the translated word is all zeroes.  
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> More setup time, but much faster looping for each word.
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> DaveA

Lazy way.
Py3.2

>>> import unicodedata
>>> def HasDiacritics(w):
...     w_decomposed = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', w)
...     return 'no' if len(w) == len(w_decomposed) else 'yes'
...     
>>> HasDiacritics('éléphant')
'yes'
>>> HasDiacritics('elephant')
'no'
>>> HasDiacritics('\N{LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS AND MACRON}')
'yes'
>>> HasDiacritics('U')
'no'
>>>

Should be ok for the CombiningDiacriticalMarks unicode range
(common diacritics)

jmf