amuthaa provides a number of tools to handle the processing of Tamil letters and words.
Here is a sampling of the TamilLetter class:
>>> from amuthaa import TamilLetter >>> >>> letter = 'ம' >>> >>> TamilLetter.is_aytham(letter) False >>> TamilLetter.is_vowel(letter) False >>> TamilLetter.is_consonant(letter) False >>> TamilLetter.is_combination(letter) True >>> >>> consonant, vowel = TamilLetter.split_combination(letter) >>> print (consonant) ம் >>> print (vowel) அ >>> >>> TamilLetter.is_consonant(consonant) True >>> TamilLetter.is_vowel(vowel) True >>> >>> print TamilLetter.get_combination('க்', 'ஐ') கை >>> >>> >>> vowels = TamilLetter.get_vowels() >>> >>> for v in vowels: ... print (v, TamilLetter.get_vowel_type(v)) ... அ KURIL இ KURIL ஆ NEDIL உ KURIL ஈ NEDIL ஊ NEDIL ஏ NEDIL எ KURIL ஐ NEDIL ஓ NEDIL ஒ KURIL ஔ NEDIL >>> >>> consonants = TamilLetter.get_consonants() >>> ... for c in consonants: ... print (c, TamilLetter.get_consonant_type(c)) ... ய் IDAIYINAM ர் IDAIYINAM ல் IDAIYINAM வ் IDAIYINAM ழ் IDAIYINAM ள் IDAIYINAM ஜ் GRANTHA ஷ் GRANTHA ஸ் GRANTHA ஹ் GRANTHA க் VALLINAM ச் VALLINAM ட் VALLINAM த் VALLINAM ப் VALLINAM ற் VALLINAM ங் MELLINAM ஞ் MELLINAM ண் MELLINAM ந் MELLINAM ம் MELLINAM ன் MELLINAM >>> >>> foreign_letters = [ ... u'ഢ', # Malayalam ... u'ම', # Sinhala ... u'న', # Telugu ... u'ನ', # Kannada ... u'औ', # Devanagari (Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi) ... u'ល', # Khmer (Cambodia) ... u'a', # Latin ... ] >>> >>> for f in foreign_letters: ... print ("The letter %s is in the %s script" %(f, TamilLetter.get_script_name(f))) ... The letter ഢ is in the MALAYALAM script The letter ම is in the SINHALA script The letter న is in the TELUGU script The letter ನ is in the KANNADA script The letter औ is in the DEVANAGARI script The letter ល is in the KHMER script The letter a is in the LATIN script