Extract, clean and transform ISBNs (International Standard Book Number).
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isbntools provides several useful methods and functions to validate, clean and transform ISBN strings.
Typical usage (as library):
#!/usr/bin/env python
import isbntools
...Several scripts are provided to use from the command line:
$ to_isbn10 ISBN13transforms an ISBN10 number to ISBN13.
$ to_isbn13 ISBN10transforms an ISBN13 number to ISBN10.
$ isbn_info ISBNgives you the group identifier of the ISBN.
$ isbn_mask ISBNmasks (hyphenate) an ISBN (split it by identifiers).
$ isbn_meta ISBNgives you the main metadata associated with the ISBN (uses wcat.org).
$ isbn_validate ISBNvalidates ISBN10 and ISBN13.
$ isbn_stdin_validateto use with posix pipes (e.g. cat ISBNs | isbn_stdin_validate).
$ isbntoolswrites version and copyright notice.
Many more scripts could be written with the library, using the methods for extraction, cleaning, validation and standardization of ISBNs.
Install
From a command line enter:
$ pip install isbntoolsor:
$ easy_install isbntoolsor:
$ pip install isbntools-0.7.4.tar.gzKnown Issues
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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