dragonmapper 0.2.1

Identification and conversion functions for Chinese text processing

Dragon Mapper is a Python library that provides identification and conversion functions for Chinese text processing.

• Documentation: http://dragonmapper.rtfd.org

• GitHub: https://github.com/tsroten/dragonmapper

• Free software: MIT license

Features

• Convert between Chinese characters, Pinyin, Zhuyin, and the International Phonetic Alphabet.

• Identify a string as Traditional or Simplified Chinese, Pinyin, Zhuyin, or the International Phonetic Alphabet.

>>> s = '我是一个美国人。'
>>> dragonmapper.hanzi.is_simplified(s)
True
>>> dragonmapper.hanzi.to_pinyin(s)
'wǒshìyīgèměiguórén。'
>>> dragonmapper.hanzi.to_pinyin(s, all_readings=True)
'[wǒ][shì/shi/tí][yī][gè/ge/gě/gàn][měi][guó][rén/ren]。'

>>> s = 'Wǒ shì yīgè měiguórén.'
>>> dragonmapper.transcriptions.is_pinyin(s)
True
>>> dragonmapper.transcriptions.pinyin_to_zhuyin(s)
'ㄨㄛˇ ㄕˋ ㄧ ㄍㄜˋ ㄇㄟˇ ㄍㄨㄛˊ ㄖㄣˊ.'
>>> dragonmapper.transcriptions.pinyin_to_ipa(s)
'wɔ˧˩˧ ʂɨ˥˩ i˥ kɤ˥˩ meɪ˧˩˧ kwɔ˧˥ ʐən˧˥.'

Getting Started

• Install Dragon Mapper

• Read Dragon Mapper’s tutorial

• Report bugs and ask questions via GitHub Issues

• Refer to the API documentation when you need more technical information

• Contribute documentation, code, or feedback

Change Log

0.2.1 (2014-04-28)

• Reformats README.rst.

• Renames change log file to *.rst.

• Adds authors and contributing files.

• Sets up Travis CI.

• Adds version to __init__.py.

• Fixes #5. Make accented_to_numbered() add apostrophes when needed.

• Fixes #4. Fixes numbered_to_accented() handling of 'v' vowel.

• Fixes #3. Changes IndexError exception handlers to KeyError.

• Fixes #2. Fixes accented_to_numbered() with uppercase accented vowel.

0.2.0 (2014-04-14)

• Fixes typo in is_pinyin.

• Adds is_pinyin_compatible() and is_zhuyin_compatible() functions.

• Removes code for identifying Hanzi and incorporates Hanzi Identifier library.

• Removes Sphinx viewcode extension.

• Adds Python 3.4 environment to tox configuration.

• Fixes typo in setup.py. Fixes #1.

0.1.0 (2014-02-17)

• Initial release.