Metadata-Version: 1.1
Name: py2casefold
Version: 0.2.1
Summary: Unicode casefold support for python 2.
Home-page: https://github.com/rwarren/py2casefold
Author: Russell Warren
Author-email: russ@perspexis.com
License: BSD
Description: ``py2casefold``
        ===============
        
        Python 3 has ``str.casefold()``.  Python 2 doesn't.  ``py2casefold``
        brings casefolding support to Python 2.
        
        Installation
        ============
        
        ``pip install py2casefold``
        
        Usage
        =====
        
            >>> from py2casefold import casefold
            >>> print casefold(u"tschüß")
            tschüss
            >>> casefold(u"ΣίσυφοςﬁÆ") == casefold(u"ΣΊΣΥΦΟσFIæ") == u"σίσυφοσfiæ"
            True
        
        Note that ``casefold`` does *not* normalize the string.  Casefolding and
        normalization are different operations.  For more info see
        http://www.w3.org/International/wiki/Case_folding, and
        http://www.w3.org/TR/charmod-norm/.
        
        If you are looking for string similarity you will also probably want to
        consider one of the unicode normalization options (NFC, NFKC, NFD, NFKD)
        that are available with python's built in ``unicodedata.normalize()``.
        
        Speed
        =====
        
        At the moment, this pure python ``casefold`` implementation is
        significantly (> 20X) slower than the optimized py3 C implementation.
        This can be improved later, but it is currently more than sufficient
        for basic case folding.  As a rough estimate, case folding 100
        characters clocks in at ~ 25us on an old developer laptop.
        
        License
        =======
        BSD and the Unicode license agreement.  This module includes data from
        the Unicode consortium which should include the appropriate notice (see
        http://unicode.org/copyright.html).
        
        See ``LICENSE`` file for details.
        
Keywords: unicode casefold
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 3 - Alpha
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: Topic :: Software Development
Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: User Interfaces
Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.6
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
