tell whether a character is a combining diacritic mark

Question

if you're looping though the chars a unicode string in python (2.x), say:

ak.sɛp.tɑ̃

How can you tell whether the current char is a combining diacritic mark?

For instance, the last char in the above string is actually a combining mark:

ak.sɛp.tɑ̃ --> ̃

Answer 1

Use the unicodedata module:

import unicodedata
if unicodedata.combining(u'a'):
    print "is combining character"
else:
    print "is not combining"

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