Regionalify: Supercharge your Django Admin with the power of regional character indicators

__init__.py

# github gists don't like empty files

README.rst

Regionalify

Make your Django admin prettier with regional indicator characters!

Installation

Put the regionalify directory somewhere on your Python PATH (in your project root for example, next to manage.py).

Add this line to your settings.INSTALLED_APPS:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...,
    'regionalify.apps.RegionalifyMonkeyConfig',
    ...
)

Now visit your admin page and be amazed.

apps.py

from django.apps import AppConfig, apps

from .utils import cool_name


class RegionalifyMonkeyConfig(AppConfig):
    name = 'regionalify'

    def ready(self):
        """
        Monkeypatch the verbose_name of all installed apps to be much cooler.
        """
        for config in apps.get_app_configs():
            new_name = "✨{}✨".format(cool_name(config.verbose_name))
            config.verbose_name = new_name

utils.py

import unicodedata


def regional_indicator(letter):
    """
    Return the regional indicator character corresponding to the given letter.
    If none exist, return the letter itself instead.
    """
    name = 'REGIONAL INDICATOR SYMBOL LETTER {}'.format(letter.upper())

    try:
        return unicodedata.lookup(name)
    except LookupError:
        return letter


def cool_name(s):
    """
    Turn all the letter inside the given string into regional indicator
    characters.
    """
    return "\N{ZERO WIDTH SPACE}".join(map(regional_indicator, s))