Extract, clean and transform ISBNs (International Standard Book Number).
Project description
ISBN tools
==========
Info
----
`isbntools` provides several useful methods and functions
to validate, clean and transform ISBN strings.
Typical usage:
```python
#!/usr/bin/env python
import isbntools
```
Several scripts are provided to use from the command line:
* `to_isbn10` `ISBN13` : transforms an ISBN10 number to ISBN13
* `to_isbn13` `ISBN10` : transforms an ISBN13 number to ISBN10
* `isbn_info` `ISBN` : gives you the `group identifier` of the ISBN
* `isbn_mask` `ISBN` : *masks* (hyphenate) an ISBN (split it by identifiers)
* `isbn_meta` `ISBN` : gives you the main metadata associated with the ISBN (uses wcat.org)
* `isbn_validate` : to use with *posix pipes* (e.g. `cat ISBNs | isbn_validate`)
* `isbntools` : writes version and copyright notice
Install
-------
```
pip install isbntools
or
easy_install isbntools
or
pip install isbntools-0.7.2.zip (first you have to download the file!)
```
Known Issues
------------
1. Some of the methods don't work with ISBNs with group identifier `979`
(will be fixed in next version)
2. The `meta` method and the `isbn_meta` script sometimes gives a wrong result,
this is due to errors on the wcat.org service
ISBN
----
To know about ISBN:
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number
* http://www.isbn-international.org/
==========
Info
----
`isbntools` provides several useful methods and functions
to validate, clean and transform ISBN strings.
Typical usage:
```python
#!/usr/bin/env python
import isbntools
```
Several scripts are provided to use from the command line:
* `to_isbn10` `ISBN13` : transforms an ISBN10 number to ISBN13
* `to_isbn13` `ISBN10` : transforms an ISBN13 number to ISBN10
* `isbn_info` `ISBN` : gives you the `group identifier` of the ISBN
* `isbn_mask` `ISBN` : *masks* (hyphenate) an ISBN (split it by identifiers)
* `isbn_meta` `ISBN` : gives you the main metadata associated with the ISBN (uses wcat.org)
* `isbn_validate` : to use with *posix pipes* (e.g. `cat ISBNs | isbn_validate`)
* `isbntools` : writes version and copyright notice
Install
-------
```
pip install isbntools
or
easy_install isbntools
or
pip install isbntools-0.7.2.zip (first you have to download the file!)
```
Known Issues
------------
1. Some of the methods don't work with ISBNs with group identifier `979`
(will be fixed in next version)
2. The `meta` method and the `isbn_meta` script sometimes gives a wrong result,
this is due to errors on the wcat.org service
ISBN
----
To know about ISBN:
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number
* http://www.isbn-international.org/
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