iso639

A simple (really simple) library for working with ISO639-2 language codes. Tested for Python 2.7 & 3.4.

Includes data from Congress library: http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php (+ updates)

Installation

The easiest way is using pip:

pip install iso639

If you are using Fedora 24+, you can install iso639 using dnf:

dnf install python2-iso639   
# or
dnf install python3-iso639

Thanks, unknown Fedora packagers :-)

Alternatives

• pycountry: https://bitbucket.org/flyingcircus/pycountry - a more-featured package
• iso639: https://github.com/noumar/iso639 - another package with the same name

Example usage

import iso639

>>> iso639.to_name('sv')
u'Swedish'

>>> iso639.to_native('sv')
u'svenska'

For more examples, see doctests in the source code.

Acknowledgments

@hosford42 - adding the native language support