dinsort 0.1

Sort terms according to German DIN.

Sort terms according to German DIN 5007.

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Little Python library to support sorting of terms according to DIN (German Standards Institute) standard 5007.

This standard describes how to sort german terms alphabtically. It provides two variants:

• Variant 1:

  • 'ä' equals 'a'

  • 'ß' equals 'ss'

  • …

• Variant 2:

  • 'ä' equals 'ae'

  • 'ß' equals 'ss'

  • …

In both variants other diacritics are removed. So 'é' and 'ç' become 'e' and 'c' respecively.

Usage

dinsort is a Python library.

Normalizing Terms

Main function is dinsort.normalize. It generates a normalized form of any string term given:

>>> from dinsort import normalize
>>> normalize("Löblich")
'loblich'

Variants are defined as constants:

>>> from dinsort import VARIANT1, VARIANT2
>>> normalize("Müßig", variant=VARIANT1)
'mussig'

>>> normalize("Müßig", variant=VARIANT2)
'muessig'

Terms are normalized to lower-case by default. You can request case-sensitiveness:

>>> normalize("Maße", case_sensitive=True)
'Masse'

Install

User Install

The latest release of dinsort can be installed via pip:

$ pip install dinsort

The exact way depends on your operating system.

Developer Install

Developers clone the sources from github:

$ git clone https://github.com/ulif/dinsort.git

Create a virtual env (Python versions >= 2.6 supported):

$ cd dinsort
$ virtualenv py27
$ source py27/bin/activate

and install dependencies:

(py27) python setup py dev

You can run tests with py.test:

(py27) py.test

or with tox:

(py27) pip install tox
(py27) tox

Changes

0.1 (2015-10-13)

• Initial version.