language-tags 0.3.2

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

IANA Language Tags for Python

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.

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.

0.3.2

• Upgrade to https://github.com/mattcg/language-subtag-registry/releases/tag/v0.3.11

• Added wheel config

• Fixed bug under windows: opening data files using utf-8 encoding.

0.3.1

• Upgrade to https://github.com/mattcg/language-subtag-registry/releases/tag/v0.3.8

0.3.0

• Upgrade to https://github.com/mattcg/language-subtag-registry/releases/tag/v0.3.6

• Simplify output of __str__ functions. The previous json dump is assigned to the repr function.

  nlbe = tags.tags('nl-Latn-BE')
  > print(nlbe)
  'nl-Latn-BE'
  > print(nlbe.language)
  'nl'
  > print(nlbe.script)
  'Latn'

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