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This Python API offers a way to validate and lookup languages tags.

Standard

It is based on BCP 47 (RFC 5646) and the latest IANA language subtag registry.

This project will be updated as the standards change.

Language-tags 1.0.0 only supports Python 3, for Python 2 support, please use language-tags 0.5.0.

JSON data

See the language-subtag-registry project for the underlying JSON data.

Javascript version

This project is a Python version of the language-tags Javascript project. Changelog =========

1.3.1

  • Add python 3.13 and python 3.14 support (#100)

1.3.0

  • Migrate to latest data #97

  • Pyproject and GitHub Actions (#92)

  • Add test-coverage (#96)

1.2.0

  • Update data to version 2022-06-28 (#89)

  • Drop support for Python 3.6 and 3.7 and add support for Python 3.10 (#87)

  • Drop universal wheels

  • Drop tox support

1.1.0

  • Update data to version 2020-09-29 (#62)

  • Update dependencies and Python (Removed Python 3.5 support, now supports 3.6 to 3.9) (#74, #77)

  • Drop pyup support (#80)

  • Fix pypi description (#78)

  • Include MIT License in package (#67)

  • Fix deprecation warnings (#84)

1.0.0

  • Drop support for Python 2

0.5.0

  • Updated dependencies and Python (Removed Python3.3 and Python3.4 support, added 3.6 and 3.7)

0.4.6

  • Avoid modifying tag when getting description

0.4.5

  • Close files after opening #38

0.4.4

  • Bug fix release: language tag ‘aa’ is detected as invalid #27

0.4.3

0.4.2

0.4.1

  • Included the data folder again in the project package.

  • Added bash script (update_data_files.sh) to download the language-subtag-registry and move this data in the data folder of the project.

0.4.0

  • Allow parsing a redundant tag into subtags.

  • Added package.json file for easy update of the language subtag registry data using npm (npm install or npm update)

  • Improvement of the language-tags.tags.search function: rank equal description at top. See mattcg/language-tags#4

0.3.2

0.3.1

0.3.0

0.2.0

  • Adjust language, region and script properties of Tag. The properties will return language_tags.Subtag.Subtag instead of a list of string subtags

    > print(tags.tag('nl-BE').language)
    '{"subtag": "nl", "record": {"Subtag": "nl", "Suppress-Script": "Latn", "Added": "2005-10-16", "Type": "language", "Description": ["Dutch", "Flemish"]}, "type": "language"}'
    > print(tags.tag('nl-BE').region)
    '{"subtag": "be", "record": {"Subtag": "BE", "Added": "2005-10-16", "Type": "region", "Description": ["Belgium"]}, "type": "region"}'
    > print(tags.tag('en-mt-arab').script)
    '{"subtag": "arab", "record": {"Subtag": "Arab", "Added": "2005-10-16", "Type": "script", "Description": ["Arabic"]}, "type": "script"}'

0.1.1

  • Added string and Unicode functions to make it easy to print Tags and Subtags.

    > print(tags.tag('nl-BE'))
    '{"tag": "nl-be"}'
  • Added functions to easily select either the language, region or script subtags strings of a Tag.

    > print(tags.tag('nl-BE').language)
    ['nl']

0.1.0

  • Initial version

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