updated from Atlas

attic/strings-bytes/charfinder.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+from unicodedata import name
+import sys
+
+if len(sys.argv) > 1:
+    query = sys.argv[1:]
+else:
+    query = input('search words: ').split()
+
+query = [s.upper() for s in query]
+
+count = 0
+for i in range(20, sys.maxunicode):
+    car = chr(i)
+    descr = name(car, None)
+    if descr is None:
+        continue
+    words = descr.split()
+    if all(word in words for word in query):
+        print('{i:5d} {i:04x} {car:^5} {descr}'.format(**locals()))
+        count += 1
+
+print('{0} character(s) found'.format(count))