[Python-checkins] r68335 - peps/trunk/pep0/pep.py

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 2:38 AM, benjamin. peterson
<python-checkins at python.org> wrote:
> Author: benjamin.peterson
> Date: Mon Jan  5 02:38:06 2009
> New Revision: 68335
>
> Log:
> employ a rather nasty hack to sort umlauts properly
>
> Modified:
>   peps/trunk/pep0/pep.py
>
> Modified: peps/trunk/pep0/pep.py
> ==============================================================================
> --- peps/trunk/pep0/pep.py      (original)
> +++ peps/trunk/pep0/pep.py      Mon Jan  5 02:38:06 2009
> @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
> +# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
>  """Code for handling object representation of a PEP."""
>  import re
>  import textwrap
> @@ -94,7 +95,9 @@
>                 break
>         else:
>             raise ValueError("last name missing a capital letter")
> -        return u' '.join(name_parts[index:])
> +        # This replace() hack is so people with an umlaut will sort in the right
> +        # letter.
> +        return u' '.join(name_parts[index:]).replace(u"ö", u"o")

FWIW, I think you could use the unicodedata module here to normalize
the names, so all kind of accented characters
can be replaced in the future:

import unicodedata

def _normalize(name):
    return unicode(unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', name).encode('ASCII',
'ignore'))

>
>     def _last_name(self, full_name):
>         """Find the last name (or nickname) of a full name.
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