BiSheng

A set of utility functions for processing Chinese text. Current features include:

• Add spaces between Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters and halfwidth characters
• Convert traditional Chinese to simplified Chinese and the other way around

Installation

$ pip install bisheng

Usage

Add spaces between Chinese characters and halfwidth characters:

>>> import bisheng
>>> print bisheng.add_spaces(u'BiSheng由Python寫成，名字源自1000多年前的活字印刷術發明人-畢昇。')
BiSheng 由 Python 寫成，名字源自 1000 多年前的活字印刷術發明人 - 畢昇。

Specify the characters you want to exclude:

>>> print bisheng.add_spaces(u'中[括]弧')
中 [括] 孤

>>> print bisheng.add_spaces(u'中[括]弧', exclude='[]')
中[括]弧

Traditional/simplified Chinese conversion:

>>> print bisheng.to_simp(u'畢昇')
毕升

>>> print bisheng.to_trad(u'毕升')
畢升