useful utility for generate a string of chars in a range

PythonScripts/range.py

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+# Generate chars in a range. Useful for pasting in for 'translate' strings in unicode-full.yaml (etc)
+
+# Accepts either chars or hex (0xdddd)
+def char_range(first_char, last_char):
+    first_char = first_char if isinstance(first_char, int) else ord(first_char)
+    last_char = last_char if isinstance(last_char, int) else ord(last_char)
+    for i in range(first_char, last_char+1):
+        print(chr(i), end='')
+    print('')
+
+LOWER_CASE_WITH_TEXT = """
+ - "{}-{}":    # {} - {}
+    - t: "{}"
+    - spell: "translate('.', '{}', '{}')"
+"""
+LOWER_CASE = """
+ - "{}-{}":    # {} - {}
+    - spell: "translate('.', '{}', '{}')"
+"""
+UPPER_CASE_WITH_TEXT = """
+ - "{}-{}":    # {} - {}
+    - t: "{}"
+    - test: 
+          if: "$SpeechOverrides_CapitalLetters = ''"
+          then_test:
+            if: "$Impairment = 'Blindness'"
+            then: [t: "cap"]
+          else: [x: "$SpeechOverrides_CapitalLetters"] 
+    - pitch:
+        value: "$CapitalLetters_Pitch"
+        replace: [spell: "translate('.', '{}', '{}')"]
+"""
+UPPER_CASE = """
+ - "{}-{}":    # {} - {}
+    - test: 
+          if: "$SpeechOverrides_CapitalLetters = ''"
+          then_test:
+            if: "$Impairment = 'Blindness'"
+            then: [t: "cap"]
+          else: [x: "$SpeechOverrides_CapitalLetters"] 
+    - pitch:
+        value: "$CapitalLetters_Pitch"
+        replace: [spell: "translate('.', '{}', '{}')"]
+"""
+
+# Accepts either chars or hex (0xdddd) for 'first_char'
+# 'n_chars' can be number of chars or last char (either number or char)
+# 'case' should be 'upper' or 'lower'
+def generate(first_char, n_chars, text="", case="upper", first_trans='a'):
+    first_char = first_char if isinstance(first_char, int) else ord(first_char)
+    first_trans = first_char if isinstance(first_trans, int) else ord(first_trans)
+    n_chars = n_chars if isinstance(n_chars, int) else ord(n_chars)
+    if n_chars > 100:
+        n_chars = n_chars+1 - first_char  # convert to offset
+
+    chars = ''.join(list(map(chr, range(first_char, first_char+n_chars))))
+    translated_chars = ''.join(list(map(chr, range(first_trans, first_trans+n_chars))))
+    template = UPPER_CASE_WITH_TEXT
+    if case=='lower':
+        template = LOWER_CASE_WITH_TEXT if text else LOWER_CASE
+    else:
+        template = UPPER_CASE_WITH_TEXT if text else UPPER_CASE
+    if text:
+        print(template.format(chars[0], chars[-1], hex(first_char), hex(first_char+n_chars-1),
+            text, chars, translated_chars))
+    else:
+        print(template.format(chars[0], chars[-1], hex(first_char), hex(first_char+n_chars-1),
+            chars, translated_chars))
+
+    print('  let expr = "<math> <mi>{}</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>{}</mi></math>";'
+        .format(chars[0], chars[-1]))
+    print() # get extra newline
+
+
+char_range('Α', 'Ω')
+# generate('𝞐',25, text='bold italic', case='upper', first_trans='α')
+# generate('',25, text='bold italic', case='upper', first_trans='α')
+# generate('𝞪',25, text='bold italic', case='lower', first_trans='α')
+# generate('',25, text='bold italic', case='lower', first_trans='α')