pykakasi 0.96

Python implementation of kakasi - kana kanji simple inversion library

Overview

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

pykakasi at glance

Install:

pip install pykakasi

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.

Documentation

Manual is placed on readthedocs.

Copyright and License

Copyright 2010-2019 Hiroshi Miura <[e-mail]>

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.