Tor Iver Wilhelmsen tor.iver.wilhelmsen at broadpark.no
Sun Aug 22 09:41:13 EDT 2004

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"Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> writes:

> No. <control> is not a character name. The unicodedata.name function
> returns the official character name, so it MUST NOT return an alias
> (which rules out your second alternative).

Then why not return None or the empty string instead of raising an
exception?

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