textstat 1.0.0a1

Textstat is an easy to use Python library that analyzes text to provide detailed statistics, readability scores, and complexity metrics. Perfect for content analysis, education, and natural language processing.

Textstat

Textstat is an easy to use Python library that analyzes text to provide detailed statistics, readability scores, and complexity metrics. Perfect for content analysis, education, and natural language processing.

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Usage

>>> from textstat import Text, Sentence, Word

>>> my_text = Text(
  "Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the "
  "bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into "
  "the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or "
  "conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice "
  "“without pictures or conversations?”"
)

>>> my_text.stats()
{'letters': 236, 'characters': 246, 'words': 57, 'sentences': 1}

>>> my_text.flesch_reading_ease()
31.727368421052645

>>> my_text.filter(Word.length >= 10)
[Word('conversations'), Word('conversations')]

For full documentation, see https://docs.textstat.org/

Installation

textstat is available on PyPi and Conda Forge.

pip install textstat

conda install textstat