Make Unicode sub- and super-scripts

supersub.py

#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf8 -*-

def up(input):
    normal = u"0123456789+-()"
    superscript = u"⁰¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹⁺⁻⁽⁾"
    trantab = dict((ord(a), ord(b)) for a, b in zip(normal, superscript))
    return input.translate(trantab)

def down(input):
    normal = u"0123456789+-()"
    subscript = u"₀₁₂₃₄₅₆₇₈₉₊₋₍₎"
    trantab = dict((ord(a), b) for a, b in zip(normal, subscript))
    return input.translate(trantab)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    test = u"9876+5432-(10)"
    print up(test).encode('utf-8')
    print down(test).encode('utf-8')