Extract, clean and transform ISBNs (International Standard Book Number).
Project description
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isbntools provides several useful methods and functions to validate, clean and transform ISBN strings.
Typical usage:
#!/usr/bin/env python
import isbntoolsSeveral 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 ISBN : validates ISBN10 and ISBN13
isbn_stdin_validate : to use with posix pipes (e.g. cat ISBNs | isbn_stdin_validate)
isbntools : writes version and copyright notice
Install
From a command line enter:
$ pip install isbntoolsor:
$ easy_install isbntoolsor:
$ pip install isbntools-0.7.2.tar.gzKnown Issues
Some of the methods don’t work with ISBNs with group identifier 979 (will be fixed in the next major version)
The meta method and the isbn_meta script sometimes give a wrong result (this is due to errors on the wcat.org service)
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