pykakasi 0.90

Python implementation of kakasi - kana kanji simple inversion library

Overview

pykakasi is re-implementation of kakasi library (original is written in C) in Python.

How To Use pykakasi

How to Install:

pip install six semidbm
pip install pykakasi

Building library, setup script build dictionary db file and generate pickled db files. Without dictionary files, a library fails to run.

Dependencies:

six and semidbm

Sample source code:

from pykakasi import kakasi,wakati

text = u"かな漢字交じり文"
kakasi = kakasi()
kakasi.setMode("H","a") # Hiragana to ascii, default: no conversion
kakasi.setMode("K","a") # Katakana to ascii, default: no conversion
kakasi.setMode("J","a") # Japanese to ascii, default: no conversion
kakasi.setMode("r","Hepburn") # default: use Hepburn Roman table
kakasi.setMode("s", True) # add space, default: no separator
kakasi.setMode("C", True) # capitalize, default: no capitalize
conv = kakasi.getConverter()
result = conv.do(text)
print(result)

wakati = wakati()
conv = wakati.getConverter()
result = conv.do(text)
print(result)

You can use output Mode values from “H”, “K”, “a” which is each means “Hiragana”, “Katakana” and “Alphabet”. For input, you can use “J” that means “Japanese” that is mixture of Kanji, Katakana and Hiragana. Also there is values of “H”, “K” that means “Hiragana”, and “Katakana”. You can use “Hepburn” , “Kunrei” or “Passport” as mode “r”, Roman table switch. Also “s” used for separator switch, “C” for capitalize switch. “S” for separator storing option.

wakati is an implementation of kakasi’s wakati gaki option.

Options

These switch alphabets are derived from original Kakasi. Now it support following options:

Option	Description	Values	Note
K	Katakana convertion	a,H,None	roman, Hiragana or noconversion
H	Hiragana convertion	a,K,None	roman, Katakana or noconversion
J	Kanji conversion	a,H,K,None	roman or Hiragana, Katakana or noconv
a	Roman conversion	E,None	JIS ROMAN or noconversion
E	JIS ROMAN conversion	a,None	ascii roman or noconversion

Each character means character sets as follows:

Character Sets
   a: ascii  j: jisroman  g: graphic  k: kana
   (j,k     defined in jisx0201)
   E: kigou  K: katakana  H: hiragana J: kanji
   (E,K,H,J defined in jisx0208)