langcodes | Python library for working with and comparing language codes

langcodes is a Python library. langcodes has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has build file available, it has a Permissive License and it has low support. You can install using 'pip install langcodes' or download it from GitHub, PyPI.

langcodes knows what languages are. It knows the standardized codes that refer to them, such as en for English, es for Spanish and hi for Hindi. Often, it knows what these languages are called in a language, and that language doesn't have to be English. It may sound to you like langcodes solves a pretty boring problem. At one level, that's right. Sometimes you have a boring problem, and it's great when a library solves it for you. But there's an interesting problem hiding in here. How do you work with language codes? How do you know when two different codes represent the same thing? How should your code represent relationships between codes, like the following?. One way to know is to read IETF standards and Unicode technical reports. Another way is to use a library that implements those standards and guidelines for you, which langcodes does. langcodes is maintained by Robyn Speer at Luminoso, and is released as free software under the MIT license. Luminoso has more free software. We're also hiring developers.