look up names of characters in text

letters.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

"""
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letters - cat some UTF-8 text to this script, and 
it will output the unicode name of the characters in the text, if 
there is one.
"""
import sys
from unicodedata import name
import codecs
sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter('utf-8')(sys.stdout)

content = sys.stdin.read().strip()
text = content.decode('utf-8')

for letter in text:
  try: 
    uniname = name(letter)
  except ValueError:
    continue 
  print letter, uniname, "(U+%.4X)" % ord(letter), 'u"\\u' +  "%.4X" % ord(letter) + '"'